Valley Emperor

Valley Emperor

When the task force dispatched by the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Inspectorate went to Jiangbei to conduct a detailed investigation, outsiders, including Liu Bagou, did not know that Li Xuan was preparing to set off a massive anti-corruption storm.

In Li Xuan's plan, this anti-corruption storm is to have a good deterrent effect and a small negative impact.

In order to achieve a good deterrent effect, it is necessary to seize a group of high-level corrupt officials, and at the same time, the scale should not be small. In addition to high-level heavyweight corrupt officials, middle and low-level officials are also key targets.

The general steps are that the Central Inspectorate will act first, and in the attitude of catching the thief first and the king, first arrest the top-level predetermined target, and then quickly cooperate with the provincial inspectors to arrest the local fourth- and third-rank corruption. Officials, and finally, urged local inspectorates to arrest middle and low-level officials on their own.

What's interesting is that all the middle and high-level targets are actually prepared in advance. According to the top-secret report of Hantong, Li Xuan has already delineated the general scope, except for some special core high-level executives who need Li Xuan's personal order, The investigation and arrest of other high-ranking officials is handed over to the Inspectorate.

The reason why there is no direct arrest, but an additional investigation, is because Hantong's investigation methods are basically invisible, and Hantong's investigation reports are often not very detailed.

Basically, they directly report that a certain official has corrupt behavior, how much is estimated, and what method is used, but the detailed corruption time, Hantong generally does not conduct targeted investigations, because this is not their task, and Hantong's funds and manpower are also limited, and they have more and more important tasks, and it is impossible to spend too much energy on corruption investigations.

These investigations are often incidental to Hantong's daily investigations.

And according to these reports, it is not very easy to arrest people directly. After all, you need to pay attention to evidence. It is impossible to say that if you say that he is corrupt, he is corrupt. You have to come up with solid evidence.

Today, the job of the Inspectorate is to conduct an in-depth investigation of each target based on the list provided by Hantong, and get the evidence in hand!

Therefore, when the Inspectorate sent a task force to Jiangbei, it actually started a large-scale secret investigation, not only limited to the Central Inspectorate, but also requested the cooperation of the Provincial Inspectors.

It's just that at present, even within the Inspectorate, few people know the scale of this anti-corruption investigation. The only ones who know are Shi Wuyan and Cai Siqi, director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau.

Shi Wuyan was the censor of Zuodu and the minister on duty in the imperial study of the Inspectorate. The anti-corruption matter was also personally responsible by Li Xuan.

As for Cai Siqi, this person is still not a member of the Inspectorate's system. In fact, he is not an ordinary administrative official. He was born in the Hanlin Academy before being transferred to the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Inspectorate as the second-rank director.

He is the deputy director of the secretariat of the Hanlin Academy, one of the many accompanying secretaries of Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven.

When Li Xuan went out, he walked at the front, with Liu Bagou or other core senior officials accompanying him, and behind Li Xuan was the position of their accompanying secretaries.

As for other high-ranking officials, they are in the outer layers.

Of course, in the Hanlin Academy, whether it is the director, deputy director or section director, or the accompanying secretary or the first, second, or third secretary, these are actually dispatches. There is no grade.

His official is the deputy head of the Hanlin Academy, the third grade.

From the rank of the third rank to a high-ranking official from the second rank, this kind of thing is naturally rare in the official system of the Tang Empire, but it is not uncommon for officials serving in the Hanlin Academy.

There have been several examples before. For example, the Minister of Finance at that time was transferred from the Hanlin Academy. At that time, this person's rank was lower, and he became a high-ranking official with the same bang.

Of course, there is a process of rising quickly. There will be a transition period in between. During this transition period, Li Xuan usually assigns them frequent vacancies and then uses them to improve their grades.

Cai Siqi's road to promotion is no exception. As a political star who has entered the Hanlin Academy three times before and after, his career path is much smoother than that of Chen Lifu.

He is a typical example of the new generation of officials in the empire. What is the new generation of officials, that is, officials who passed the imperial examinations after the establishment of the empire.

He didn't enter the official office very early. He first served as the county magistrate at the local level. After half a year, he became a county magistrate. At the end of his term, he was transferred back to the Hanlin Academy because of his outstanding political performance. He was transferred back to the Hanlin Academy, this time he entered the secretariat as a first-class secretary, and finally became Li Xuan's accompanying secretary.

After the three-year term of the accompanying secretary expired, he was sent out to work in the Ministry of Personnel, and then transferred to Hangzhou as the prefect. But obviously, this was another gilded road. He worked in the Ministry of Personnel for three months, and worked in Hangzhou for half a year. Later, he was recalled to the Hanlin Academy by an edict from Li Xuan. For the third time he served in the Hanlin Academy, he still served as Li Xuan's accompanying secretary.

Last year, he was officially promoted to the deputy director of the secretariat, and at the same time was awarded the bachelor degree of the deputy director of the Hanlin Academy, with a grade of 3rd grade.

Well, every time he moved, it was arranged by Li Xuan!

In other words, this person is actually a young official that Li Xuan focuses on training. If he had been following the path of an ordinary administrative official, he would have been a senior official of the second rank or above, but Li Xuan felt that this person was available and he was an imperial official. It is rare to have a relatively honest official, plus many years of contact, Li Xuan also knows this person well, so he has always been kept in the Hanlin Academy to work.

Before Li Xuan pursued judicial independence, he had already arranged for him to hold various false positions. First, he was arranged to serve as the leader of the judicial reform inspection team to inspect Jiangnan Road. On the way, he was given a false title of the third grade of the imperial censor of the capital. , and then after returning, he added a false title of the censor of Zuoyadu. The false title is still the third grade, but this third grade is half higher than the third grade of the censor of the right city.

According to the tradition of the imperial official system, the left is more noble than the right. For example, the servants of various ministries, the left servant and the right servant are all from the second rank, but the right servant is changed to the left servant, which is regarded as a promotion, and vice versa. Real power is also different.

A few days later, Li Xuan officially relieved him from the dispatch of his deputy director of the secretariat, but the dispatch of the accompanying secretary was still retained, and he was asked to temporarily supervise the reorganization of the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Inspectorate. As far as the time was concerned, To be responsible for the work of the Anti-Corruption Bureau with the official title of Zhengsanpin is actually a high match, because the Anti-Corruption Bureau at that time was just an ordinary department-level agency under the central ministries. of.

Many people didn't understand it at that time, but after the success of the judicial independence reform, Li Xuan removed Cai Siqi's 'accompanying secretary' from being dispatched, let him completely break away from the Hanlin Academy, and then formally appointed him as the reformed Inspectorate against the Corruption chief.

At the same time, his official was also promoted to the imperial envoy of the right deputy, and his grade was from the second rank.

It took him less than a month to go from the third rank to the second rank, and even upgrade to the second rank.

However, this rapid promotion, many high-ranking officials are aware of it, this is a matter of course.

Don't look at people's low grade before, just a third-grade, but you must know that after he entered the official career, he actually worked in the secretariat most of the time, and served as Li Xuan's accompanying secretary for seven years.

In front of Li Xuan, the weight of his words is not much lighter than those of the servants!

In addition, in the former Ming Dynasty, the Hanlin Academy who often appeared in the Hanlin Academy became ministers, ministers, and even ministers in one step. Today, the Hanlin Academy of the Tang Empire actually has this effect.

Therefore, it is not surprising that this person has been promoted twice in a row. Of course, there are very few Hanlins in the Hanlin Academy who are promoted quickly, and then become high-ranking officials of the Ministry.

Only a few people have this opportunity!

Most of these few people have a common feature, that is, they have served in the Hanlin Academy for many times.

Having entered the Hanlin Academy for many times, he has basically blocked more than 99% of the Hanlin people.

Because the number of officials serving in the Hanlin Academy has been maintained at a scale of more than 300 people all year round, and because there is no more rigid regulation for internal promotion in the Hanlin Academy, basically at least hundreds of people are sent out every year, and then new personnel are selected from the local area. Work at the Imperial Academy.

It's just that ordinary officials basically have no hope of returning to the Hanlin Academy after they are basically released. Being able to enter the Hanlin Academy for gold plating is basically the biggest opportunity in their life, and it is the envy of countless officials. object.

But there are very few people who can get the opportunity to return to the Hanlin Academy, and even fewer people can return to the Hanlin Academy for the third or even fourth time.

And these very few officials who can return to the Hanlin Academy are all the sons of Tianjiao, and all of them are officials on Li Xuan's training list.

As a Cai Siqi, who was able to go back to the Hanlin Academy three times and finally work all the way to the bachelor of the deputy director, in the eyes of others, he was already a candidate for the cabinet.

Everyone is not surprised to be promoted from the second rank, but what everyone is surprised is why he is the important position of the director of the anti-corruption bureau.

You know, this person has never done any supervision before, will he arrest corrupt officials?

The answer is, Zeiss Qi really can't!

Catching corrupt officials, UU reading www.uukanshu.com This is not his strength, what is his strength?

He will unswervingly implement Li Xuan's orders, and he was born in the Hanlin Academy, and he is actually two systems from the ordinary cabinet civil servants, and even has nothing to do with the people inside the Inspectorate.

More importantly, he actually came on behalf of Li Xuan!

He only needs to press the officials of the Anti-Corruption Bureau to complete this task on behalf of Li Xuan, then it is a success!

To use a person, in fact, he does not need what he knows, but depends on what role he plays, and Cai Siqi sits in the anti-corruption bureau, even if he does not know anything about anti-corruption, but only needs to know that he can fully It is enough to execute Li Xuan's will.

Many people in the Anti-Corruption Bureau know how to arrest corrupt officials. What Cai Siqi needs to do is to use the people in the Anti-Corruption Bureau.

Having served in the Hanlin Academy for many years, he is not good at catching corrupt officials, but when it comes to intrigue, such as employing people, power, conspiracy, and conspiracy, he is still very confident.

Without this kind of ability, he had already been killed in the fiercely competitive Hanlin Academy, how could he have climbed all the way to the position of Bachelor of the Deputy Head Academy!

The first thing that Cai Siqi did after taking office was to dispatch the Jiangbei task force, and then conduct an internal investigation of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, so as to strive to control the real power of the Anti-Corruption Bureau as soon as possible.

As for the corrupt officials outside, for Cai Siqi, there is no rush!

As a professional politician who has been tested by political battles, he is very aware of the need to fight against foreign affairs and settle down first.

In order to complete the task assigned by His Majesty, we must first clean up the inside of the Anti-Corruption Bureau!