Chapter 1124: History is the Mirror and Knows the Rise and Fall

Guangxu finally waited for the opportunity, whether it was true or not, and immediately approved a strict investigation, organized a task force, and was bent on killing Qingkuan, but what was the result?

However, under the personal supervision of Emperor Guangxu, the special case team investigated for many days, but still did not find evidence that could lead to a capital conviction. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 infoPlease search to see the most complete! Emperor Guangxu was anxious and repeatedly asked the task force, but because there was no real evidence, he could only demote Qingkuan to a charge of "violating the system".

It turned out that Qingkuan had set up a "dismount stone" in front of his home, and officials of all sizes and ordinary people had to take the initiative to dismount when they arrived at him, which was not the treatment that officials of his level should enjoy.

As a result, the crime of violating the system was convicted, and Guangxu could be regarded as catching the pigtails, and immediately dismissed Qingkuan from his post and his family.

When he arrived here, it seemed that he was very happy and cheering, and Emperor Guangxu could be regarded as doing a good thing to eradicate corruption for the country and the people. However, the unexpected reversal soon came.

After a little calm, there was a vacancy in the "Jiangxi Yanfa Road", which was an out-and-out fat shortage, and the officials were elected to replace the officials.

What surprised Emperor Guangxu was that the new Taoist unanimously elected by everyone turned out to be Qingkuan, who had been dismissed! Moreover, the opinions of the public election are very unified, and Emperor Guangxu can't refute it if he wants to.

As the so-called world is unpredictable, this Qingkuan was driven out of the Internal Affairs Office by Guangxu, and within a few days, he was transformed into a four-grade official, and took over the real power of the salt law daotai. The power operation and personnel relations in this, presumably Emperor Guangxu did not figure it out.

Where is the imperial power, where is the royal law, and where is the blue sky?

Therefore, in the face of such "rules" and the people and things attached to them, the emperor has no choice. This is true in the heyday, and even more so in the decay.

After the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, Emperor Xuantong, also known as Puyi, abdicated. Yuan Shikai considered a smooth transition, so that Puyi would still retain the Forbidden City and other imperial property, and the Internal Affairs Office, which served the emperor and managed imperial affairs, was also retained intact. Moreover, the government of the Republic of China also gives 4 million yuan of "preferential treatment" to Pu Yi every year, which is a lot of silver for nothing.

Where did Pu Yi know how deep the water here was and how dark the road was, it was almost a big saga, and handed over all the four million yuan to the Internal Affairs Office. But he never thought that the Internal Affairs Office, which was accustomed to being poor, would still cry and complain about the poverty every year, complaining that the four million yuan was not enough to spend.

Pu Yi later understood a lot, but what he couldn't figure out at all was that the throne was lost, and there was no specific major matter of governing the country, but the expenditure of the Internal Affairs Office after entering the Republic of China actually exceeded the highest record during the Empress Dowager Cixi.

In the fourth year of the Republic of China, that is, in 1915, the expenditure of the Internal Affairs Office itself reached 2.64 million taels, while the expenditure of the Internal Affairs Office during the Cixi period was less than 1 million taels. What made Pu Yi even more dissatisfied was that he didn't know where so much white money was used!

Pu Yi once wanted to buy a car and install a telephone, but the Internal Affairs Department refused because he had no money. However, the people in the internal affairs government opened antique shops, money shops, pawnshops, wood factories, and so on.

After the death of the Qing Dynasty, the original clan nobles and ordinary banner people lived in a downbeat, and often broke the news that the princes and grandsons of the world had fallen to the city gate, and the county lord's wife had fallen into the prostitution gate. As a result, the aristocrats and bannermen in Beijing were already complaining and emotional, in stark contrast to the increasingly corrupt self-enrichment of the internal affairs government.

This is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire, intensifying the dissatisfaction of the entire Manchu people, and the call for rectification and even punishment of the internal affairs government is getting louder and louder.

The materials for reporting the Internal Affairs Office were quickly piled up on Pu Yi's desk, and someone disclosed: "Many people in the Internal Affairs Office do not know books, but they regard enriching their personal pockets as a daily routine, and seeking personal fraud is a chartered order." Unscrupulous, complacent. Some people even revealed that people in the Internal Affairs Office often shouted: "The emperor's family asks us to make money, just to feed us!"

And in fact, the people of the Internal Affairs Office are far more serious than the people who impeached. They don't know how to restrain themselves, but blindly accumulate money. With the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Internal Affairs Office had fewer opportunities for internal and external collusion, black-box operations, and self-enrichment, so it directly turned its attention to corruption into the Forbidden City.

The Forbidden City collects the wealth accumulated by the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and there are countless gold, silver and jade cultural relics and antiques. The customs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs can think of as a means of making a fortune is stealing and transferring wealth. What gold, pearls, precious stones, agate, and even antique calligraphy and paintings, some of which are exchanged for very little money, are not only stealing royal property, but also involving the destruction and theft of national cultural relics.

At this time, even the newspapers in the society could not read it, and there was a big crusade, and the Internal Affairs Office shamelessly came out to refute the rumors or explain, which became a big talk in the market.

And our Emperor Puyi also has many intentions to govern, and has moved a lot of thoughts to rectify the internal affairs office, but unfortunately it has been in vain. First, he found a person from outside the palace to be "parachuted" as the Minister of Internal Affairs, but after only three months of work, he "went home to recuperate".

Later, Pu Yi met Zheng Xiaoxu and appointed the Han minister as the prime minister and the Minister of the Interior, and "took charge of the seal key". Since then, Pu Yi and Zheng Xiaoxu have been full of confidence and have been dedicated to eliminating malpractices and opening up sources and reducing expenditure. Zheng Xiaoxu even planned that the reformed Internal Affairs Office only needed to retain four sections.

So, as soon as he took office, he came to dismount, expelled the original cousin, and arranged for a trustworthy person to take over. However, from then on, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was paralyzed, asking for money but not money, asking for things and not finding things, and the piles of ledgers became empty letters one paper after another.

At this time, Zheng Xiaoxu, who was determined to reform, adopted an official's suggestion to save money by replacing a large number of fruits and cakes sacrificed in various parts of the palace with clay and wood carvings. But I never thought that these hundreds of eunuchs in the palace relied on offerings to "generate income", and Zheng Xiaoxu cut off the offerings at once, and offended all these eunuchs.

In this way, Zheng Xiaoxu's "two fires of new officials" had just been burned, and he had just become the enemy of the entire internal affairs system. Not long after, someone sent him a threatening letter: "You are on the road to despair, you have to watch your head!" ā€

At the same time, Johnston, the "emperor" sent by Pu Yi to rectify the Summer Palace, also received threatening letters. The language on the letter was equally murderous: "If you dare to take office, there will be people waiting to kill you on the way!" ā€

Pu Yi is not a vegetarian either, and with his encouragement, Zheng Xiaoxu, Johnston and others did not retreat, and still persistently "nailed" to the Internal Affairs Office. The Ministry of Internal Affairs knew that they had encountered a hard stubble, and the top and bottom hated the two of them to the core, and they were determined to bring them down by any means. It seemed that it was no longer possible to follow the route of Emperor Puyi, so they started from the outside.

Soon, the Ministry of Internal Affairs fought back and met with Zhenzhang.

A group of members of the National Assembly of the Republic of China put forward a bill to abolish the preferential conditions of the royal family and take over the Forbidden City. The reason is very straightforward, in addition to directly pointing to Pu Yi's participation in Zhang Xun's restoration, there is also an illegal "reward to the Han Zheng Xiaoxu Forbidden City horseback riding and aiding the Minister of Internal Affairs".

What's even worse is that there is another one in the accusation, that is, Pu Yi let Zheng Xiaoxu rectify the internal affairs office at the same time, and asked someone to count the calligraphy, painting and antiques collected in the Forbidden City. However, it's okay not to count, and the good things in the palace are getting fewer and fewer. Bronze and jade, calligraphy and paintings, gold and silver jewelry continued to flow outside the palace and were openly sold in the cultural relics market, causing a sensation at home and abroad.

And these public opinions, in turn, put a lot of pressure on Pu Yi, Zheng Xiaoxu and others. The Ministry of the Interior of the Cabinet of the Republic of China also promulgated the Draft Law on the Preservation of Ancient Books, Antiquities and Historic Sites, which specifically targeted the export of antiquities sold by the Qing court.

These accusations raised by the Congress are not unreasonable, and not long before that, Pu Yi had discussed with Zheng Xiaoxu and others to transport the Siku Quanshu to the Shanghai Commercial Press for publication in exchange for manuscript fees to support the "great cause of liberation". As a result, all these books were seized by the authorities of the Republic of China.

At this time, Pu Yi's biological father Zaifeng came forward and told Pu Yi: "Zheng Xiaoxu's method is worth considering, if even the Republic of China authorities are not satisfied, it will be even more difficult to do in the future!" ā€

And Shao Ying, the Minister of Internal Affairs who has been sitting firmly in Diaoyutai, also told Pu Yi with the same deferential and timid appearance as always: "Wang Huaiqing, the commander of the infantry army of the Republic of China, is also very dissatisfied with Zheng Xiaoxu's approach, Wang Huaiqing said that if Zheng Xiaoxu is called to make trouble again, if the Republic of China makes any moves, he will not be able to help!" ā€

Between "internal and external troubles", in the midst of "the shock of the crowd", Pu Yi was scared, and Zheng Xiaoxu took the initiative to "implore him to go on an errand" and only be an ordinary court consultant. And the seal key of the Internal Affairs Office finally returned to the hands of Shao Ying, who was inconspicuous.

A huge plan to rectify the Ministry of Internal Affairs ended without a hitch, and there was no new plan for rectification again. It was not until 1924 that Pu Yi was finally expelled from the palace, the Republic of China government took back the Forbidden City, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs came to an end. A generation of emperors has started some wandering careers since then, and those officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, big and small, have gone their separate ways with the money they have earned.

There is another tidbit in the back of this matter.

That is, half a century has passed, Pu Yi, who abdicated and became a puppet of the Japanese, became a political prisoner after the founding of New China, and was finally amnesty. After going through so much, the little emperor of the year couldn't let go in his heart, and hated the internal affairs government that had always "followed the old system".

He always believed that if it were not for the constraints of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Qing Dynasty would not have perished. Taking 10,000 steps back, at least the small dynasty after the abdication can be preserved, even if it cannot "make a comeback", it can also be used as a symbolic existence.

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So, it's the same now. Although Dong Qingming and these people are not as evil as the Internal Affairs Office, and they may not have studied this period of history, one thing is certain, that is, in their hearts, they think that "obeying the rules" is more important than "obeying orders", even if this rule seems trivial and even ridiculous.

What to do?

The handling at this time becomes important suddenly.

Lifting a weight is a different aspect of dealing with a problem, and it is also a different realm.

If the victory that Thangka commanded and fought outside the conference room just now was a weightlift, it seemed to solve the turkey problem in an understatement. Well, the current matter of taking documents is as important as a matter of weight!

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