Chapter 605: Fighting Tigers

The autumn breeze was cool, and Chang'an City was quiet for another two days.

In the past two days, whether it is Qin Tian, Li Shimin, or Wei Zheng, they have not mentioned anything about the temple.

It gives the illusion that the imperial court has suddenly given up on the matter.

And just two days later, in the imperial study, the guards sent out by Li Shimin finally had news.

The guard didn't say much, but wrote down the results of the investigation on a piece of paper and handed it to Li Shimin.

After Li Shimin opened the piece of paper and looked at it, his brows suddenly condensed.

Because, on this piece of paper, it is written that all the officials involved and the Big Buddha Temple have received land, some have accepted money, and some have even given the girl what they like.

In addition, some officials even deposited their land in the name of the Great Buddha Temple to avoid paying taxes.

A very large piece of paper, densely written a lot, Li Shimin read it, and he was already so angry that he was about to vomit blood.

Datang has only been founding for more than ten years, and there has already been such serious corruption, which is really staggering.

Generally speaking, corruption occurs in every dynasty, and it is repeatedly prohibited, but in the early days of the founding of the country, this situation will be much less, not too obvious, and in the later period, it will be difficult to control.

It is really frightening and angry that such a thing has happened in Datang today.

Li Shimin threw the piece of paper on the table and walked back and forth, although this is only a small face, but if it is not contained, the situation will become more and more serious, and even affect the development of the entire Tang Dynasty in the end.

It's just that this thing has to be done, but how to do it and how to do it makes Li Shimin a little embarrassed.

Corruption cannot be prohibited, and there are a lot of people involved in this matter.

"Someone, call Qin Tian."

The imperial study has been cool, but it has not yet reached the point of using a warm kang, and even this year, Li Shimin may wait until he really can't get through it, and he will use a warm kang.

The imperial court, it's difficult now.

After Qin Tian came, he already felt the coldness and couldn't help but shrink his neck.

"Holy Lord, call the ministers to come, but what is the matter?"

Li Shimin handed the piece of paper to Qin Tian: "Look at it yourself." ”

Qin Tian picked up the piece of paper and glanced at it roughly, without looking at it too carefully, after glancing at it like this, Qin Tian's brows moved slightly, and he said, "How is the Holy Lord going to deal with this matter?" ”

Li Shimin said: "I called you to see if you have any way, this thing is not easy to do, there are too many people involved, if they are all moved, the imperial court will find so many officials from there to fill the vacancies for a while, and the work of Datang will not be able to operate in a timely manner, and it will be very bad, but if it is not punished, this matter will become more and more uncontrollable, and it will be unfavorable to the development of my Datang in the future." ”

Li Shimin saw things very clearly, after Qin Tian heard Li Shimin's words, he secretly sighed in his heart, throughout the ages, this kind of thing is not easy to solve.

Looking at the entire Chinese emperor, there is basically no one who can completely solve this matter, and the slightly better one is Emperor Song Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, but the reason why he was able to solve this problem was that he also spent a lot of money, with a high salary and low salary.

Give officials a huge amount of money, give them all kinds of benefits, let them be officials, and they can survive well, so who would risk corruption?

It's just that if you do this, it will bring huge pressure to the imperial court in the later stage, and once the officials indulge in enjoyment and can't extricate themselves, I am afraid that the rich money given by the imperial court will not be enough.

Well, there's always not enough money.

Moreover, this method is not applicable to the Tang Dynasty at this time, Song Zhenzong is the third emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, at that time the Great Song Dynasty was already extremely rich, with high salaries and incorruptible salaries, and the court paid them, but now the Tang Dynasty is a difficult time, and it is already very good to be able to issue the Yulu to officials on time, let alone improve the Yulu.

can't be paid a high salary, then there is a means of fighting tigers with iron and blood, the most famous is Zhu Yuanzhang, he killed corrupt officials, but his eyes didn't explode.

It doesn't matter if you are a dozen, or a hundred, or even a thousand, you will kill if you should kill them, and if there are no officials after killing, I will look for them again, anyway, there can be no corrupt officials.

If you dare to be greedy, I will kill you.

Such iron and blood is rare in the entire history of China, but unfortunately, the effect is not great, and the corruption problem in the Ming Dynasty has always been very serious.

The Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty were two extremes in terms of Yulu, but unfortunately they were unable to completely solve the problem.

It is unlikely that Datang wants to solve this problem completely, as long as there are selfish thoughts in human nature, this problem will never be solved.

"Holy Lord, this matter is indeed difficult to solve, but it is not impossible to curb the continued spread of this matter."

Hearing that Qin Tian had a way, Li Shimin was a little overjoyed and said, "Oh, what can you do?" ”

"Two means, the first is to punish corrupt officials, this punishment, don't be too much, just let them have no face, let them know that as long as they are greedy for ink, they will have to be embarrassed in the future, and second, for those who give bribes, as long as they take the initiative to bribe, they must be punished more severely, and directly cut off their heads, so as to kill the bribe-giver, see who else dares to bribe?"

In Qin Tian's view, there are two reasons for the endless occurrence of greedy ink, one is that the officials themselves are more greedy, so they find opportunities for people to bribe him, such officials can be severely punished, and the second reason is that some bribe-givers need the help of officials, so they take the initiative to bribe, in this case, officials can be punished lightly, so that they are embarrassed, but for those who take the initiative to bribe, it is necessary to make an example, so that it can naturally curb the thoughts of those who want to bribe.

All along, the punishment for this kind of thing is too light, the cost of bribery is too low, naturally some people dare to take risks, if they are allowed to pay with their lives, see who dares to take the initiative to bribe?

If an official asks for a bribe, he will also be severely punished, so the official will not dare to ask for a bribe.

If you control these two points, many things will be solved.

Qin Tian told Li Shimin about his thoughts, and after listening to it, Li Shimin felt that such a method was very special, he had never seen it before, and these two methods were from the perspective of human nature, so that they were afraid and did not dare to give or ask for bribes.

"Qin Aiqing's method is not bad, it may work, but it just makes the officials lose face and embarrass people, this is a bit embarrassing, I don't kill their heads, I don't degrade their official positions, how can I make them lose face?"

As the Son of Heaven, imagination is sometimes limited, so Li Shimin really can't think of some crooked ways or something, Qin Tian thought about it and said, "Holy Lord, it's better to ...... like this"

Qin Tian muttered to Li Shimin, and after Li Shimin listened, his expression moved slightly, and then said: "Great goodness, interesting, just like that......"

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