By the time of April of the seventeenth year of Xuanping, the anti-corruption operation had lasted for half a year, and in the face of the report submitted by the Anti-Corruption Bureau, Li Xuan also began to retreat!

This rectification of the rule of officials cannot be continued, and if it continues, I am afraid that it will really shake the rule of the empire.

In the past six months, the whole empire has investigated and cracked tens of thousands of anti-corruption cases, arrested more than 50 high-ranking officials from the third rank and above, and more than 4,000 middle and high-level officials from the fourth rank to the seventh grade, and the number of low-level officials of the eighth and ninth grades has exceeded more than 20,000!

More than 25,000 officials were arrested!

At the same time, behind these officials, there are often a large number of key criminals involved in the case, such as their relatives, businessmen, etc., and the number of this group of people is even larger, and it is currently more than 100,000.

The arrest of more than 100,000 people in a short period of time has made the judicial system in various parts of the empire overrun, and sometimes even prisons are not enough, and many places are forced to set up various temporary prisons because there are too many criminals arrested and they cannot live in prisons.

The patrol officers are busy arresting people every day, the inspectorate is busy initiating public prosecutions, and the courts are busy hearing cases.

And not all of these criminals will be sentenced to death, in fact, most of them will still be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment, and these criminals who have been sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment will be sent to various labor camps to mine and build roads to work as coolies, and some will be exiled overseas.

There's always a lot of trouble to follow.

The overoperation of the judicial system is just a trivial matter, and the key thing is that this anti-corruption campaign has also been carried out for half a year, and at the beginning, most of the officials were still watching other people's jokes.

In the middle of the period, many people were afraid that they would also be implicated, but at this time, they still didn't dare to say anything, because if they said anything at this time, it wouldn't be clear that they had ghosts, so although they were afraid, they still shouted anti-corruption slogans one by one, following the pace of the Son of Heaven.

But now, more than 20,000 officials have been arrested, and more than 100,000 civilians have been involved in the case, and the scale of this anti-corruption campaign is already too big, too big, so big that many officials who want to take advantage of this opportunity to kill their competitors, or who really want to engage in the rule of officials and rectify the atmosphere, are afraid.

In April of the seventeenth year of Xuanping, almost all the officials of the national empire, regardless of whether they were the second-rank Shangshu or the lowest-ranking clerks from the ninth grade, were all worried.

Not to mention being corrupt for money like before, now they are all taking the initiative to break their arms to survive, cutting off and covering up some of the past corrupt behaviors.

Nowadays, even ordinary banquets and entertainments, these officials can postpone as much as they can.

No one wants to be targeted by those red-eyed Yushili!

Why did the imperial historians kill the red eyes?

Because Zeiszi of the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Inspectorate was behind them with a gun to their heads!

Then it is very clear to the imperial historians within the Inspectorate that this time the anti-corruption is planned, how many officials should be arrested for capital crimes, and how many officials who can be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment should be arrested, there are indicators and plans.

Whoever is unable to complete the task is ready to fill the gap in the indicator by himself!

Cai Siqi is in the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Inspectorate, and calls it 'planned anti-corruption'!

And Zeisqi did what he did, or rather, this is the task given to him by Li Xuan, although there is no clear data standard, but Zeisqi knows that he must meet a standard, otherwise, his job is incompetent.

And once he doesn't do well, then his own fate is probably not much better!

When the master stabs the enemy with a dagger, if the dagger can't pierce the enemy, then the master will definitely change to a sharper dagger!

Zeiss will not be willing to be an abandoned dagger!

He had to prove to Li Xuan that his knife was still very useful!

The Son of Heaven did not have a clear instruction, so he set his own standard, and this standard was very simple: one out of twenty!

Basically, out of a hundred officials, five have to be eliminated.

Of course, he can't say it clearly to his subordinates, but he will master this degree in the specific process, and if he can't meet this requirement, he will be unlucky, and he will be directly depreciated without anything, and if he has a problem, needless to say, he will be thrown directly into prison.

And if you meet this standard, you will be rewarded!

In this way, although everyone did not say it explicitly, but the imperial historians also had a scale in their hearts, and the number of arrests must reach a certain standard, so those imperial historians naturally tried their best to investigate and arrest people, because if they don't arrest people, they will die themselves.

However, this kind of hard-line method has been carried out so far, and the overall goal of 20 out of 1 in many places has not been accomplished, but it has already been carried out, and some people are panicking

When the governors of several provinces asked the central government to send more officials to fill the vacancy, Li Xuan realized that it was time to stop and continue to kill, and he had to kill all the people.

Nowadays, in many places, even the number of officials is insufficient.

For example, in Jiangbei Province, where the situation is the most serious, since last fall, not only the Taoist officials, but also the prefects of several subordinate prefectures, and more county orders under the government, have all been changed, some of them have been arrested, and some of them have been transferred for monitoring and appointment.

These local magistrates are okay, but more ordinary officials, who have been arrested too much, have begun to affect the operation of the local administrative system.

At this time, Li Xuan also gave instructions to Cai Siqi: In the past six months, I am still very satisfied with the work performance of the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Inspectorate, which has greatly rectified the rule of officials and cleaned up the officialdom, and the follow-up anti-corruption work must continue to be maintained.

However, this anti-corruption work should not be rushed, and it should be done gradually, so as not to cause panic.

Li Xuan's words made the Anti-Corruption Bureau stop the butcher's knife!

Subsequently, Li Xuan instructed the Tang Dynasty Daily to publish relevant propaganda articles to guide public opinion!

The core of the article is that under the guidance of the wise and great Son of Heaven, the empire has achieved rich results in the rectification of officials, arrested a large number of corrupt officials, eliminated a large number of people's harms, and created a prosperous environment for the common people in the world to live and work in peace and contentment!

And whose credit for all this is given?

Naturally, it is wise and great, greater than the sun, the benevolent Eternal Sage, the God Emperor who surpasses the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, the Son of Heaven, and the Holy Son of Heaven Li Xuan!

This article that summarizes the anti-corruption work is actually used to appease the officials, don't be afraid, I've almost killed it, and I'll do what I should do.

However, it is unlikely that the officials want real peace of mind, because this report is followed by a very short circular informing the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Inspectorate that Cai Siqi has made meritorious efforts to rectify the rule of officials and is allowed to walk in the imperial study.

Although he is not a minister on duty, he is just a minister of walking, but the power of the minister of walking in the imperial study is actually very large.

At present, there are a total of nine ministers on duty in the imperial study, and there are also eighteen ministers on duty!

Because the Imperial Study is on duty, generally speaking, there will be three ministers on duty and six ministers on duty on a daily basis.

After all, whether it is a minister on duty or a minister on duty, most of them still have their own jobs, and it is impossible to stay on duty in the imperial study all day long, and they also need time to deal with the essential work.

Some daily affairs are basically handled directly by the minister on duty and the minister on duty, and when there is a major event, all the ministers on duty in the imperial study will be convened to discuss.

Whether it is the minister on duty or the minister on duty, they are actually a small group of people who stand at the top of the imperial power, because the selection of personnel in the imperial study is not limited to the rank and position of the official, but belongs to the direct selection of the emperor to enter the value.

Therefore, the opportunity to enter the imperial study is not arranged according to the position, but there is no law, Li Xuan will let whoever goes well.

In this case, it doesn't mean that if you are a high-ranking official of the second grade, you will definitely be able to enter the imperial study, even if you are a walking minister, you may not have your share.

As for the level from the second grade, that's not to mention.

Li Xuan let Cai Siqi live in the imperial study, the meaning is already very obvious, not only to reward Cai Siqi, this is not important at all, the important thing is that he wants to let the officials know: Don't think that the rectification of the government is over, you can relax!

Zeiszi's existence is a knife, and it is a knife that has been hanging over their heads!

Li Xuan continued to reuse this person, just to make a direct statement to all the officials in the world: Be honest with me, otherwise I will draw a knife and kill someone!

Thanks to Li Xuan's arrangement, Zeiss Qi has also reached the pinnacle of his life!

Who would have thought that half a year ago, he was only the deputy director of the secretariat of the Hanlin Academy, and the accompanying secretary of the third rank, and half a year later, he would be able to be a high-ranking official from the second rank, and he would be on duty in the imperial study as a walking minister, and become one of the more than 20 most powerful high-ranking officials in the empire.

According to the current political structure of the empire, the most powerful is undoubtedly the duty minister of the imperial study, and under the nine duty ministers, there are eighteen walking ministers.

There are a total of twenty-seven ministers of the Imperial Study, which constitute the core power class of the Tang Empire!

Well, this includes civil and military, because the minister on duty and the minister on duty in the imperial study are both civil and military.

For civil officials, entering the imperial study is their greatest pursuit, and for military generals, the same is true!

But what is more noteworthy is that the Imperial Study has never been a formal administrative institution, and even in the official system, there is no such institution, and the Minister on Duty and the Minister of Walk in the Imperial Study are not an official position, nor do they have any rank, nor do they have any qualifications.

The imperial study, from the beginning to the present, is just a simple imperial study, and entering the imperial study is just a dispatch arranged by Li Xuan for them.

Dispatch and official position and rank are completely different concepts.