In one day, two prime ministers and a Shangshu were demoted, and in the past few days, many officials were invited to tea by the Imperial Historical Observatory, and then sent to prison for investigation. If it was placed in the past, this would definitely cause shock from the government and the opposition, and the people would criticize it, but the reputation of Lu Qi and Guan Bo was too bad, and Yu Xin was also notorious.

One day, Gao Shang and Li Mi came to see Zhao Ziliang together, and Gao Shang said: "King, if you want to achieve results in several new policies, the key is to look at the implementation, and let the court and local officials implement them to the letter in order to achieve the greatest results, because these new policies are almost all aimed at officials, it is not realistic to let them check their own problems, and let them check and supervise each other should still be able to achieve some results, but after discussion, the ministers and others believe that they should let the local imperial history and supervision play an important role, They are the main force in punishing officialdom crimes, violations of laws and regulations! At the same time, the ministers and others believed that the imperial court should send out the ministers to inspect the imperial history, because some local officials or garrison generals have high official positions and great power, and the general imperial history does not dare to investigate, and the ministers sent to the imperial government can check any officials and generals, and at the same time can also supervise the local imperial history and supervise the imperial history, and the imperial court should stipulate that the local imperial history department and the imperial minister should accept anyone's report, and only when they receive a report or find that the official has a problem, they can only be investigated, and no one reports or does not find a problem can not be investigated casually, so as not to cause the phenomenon that everyone in the officialdom is in danger. This is not good for the rule of the court and local governance! ”

Zhao Ziliang thought about it for a while and said: "It is the duty of the local servant and the supervision of the imperial history to investigate the illegal or unhealthy practices of the officialdom, there is no need to make another decree, just emphasize that they should strengthen their functions, the officials of the patrol system and the supervision system want to be promoted and increase their income, mainly depending on their case-solving rate, and the patrol and arrest system also depends on the public security situation under the rule, without these two achievements, don't want to be promoted!" In the future, the promotion of administrative officials mainly depends on political performance, followed by morality, regardless of family background, regardless of origin, even if recommended by high-ranking officials, it is also spoken by these two items, not that the longer they have been officials, the higher the possibility of promotion, and political performance determines the level of talent. This has to become the norm and become the rule! ”

The ministers and officials arched their hands and said, "No! ”

Zhao Ziliang said again: "In addition, the king thinks it is feasible to send the minister to inspect the place, how do you think the minister should be sent, and who is more appropriate to send?" ”

Li Mi stood up and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, in several new decrees, the rectification of unhealthy tendencies, the fight against corruption and the promotion of honesty must be persisted in for a long time according to the meaning of the king, and the ministers and others think that sending one or two people will not play much role, and they should form a mission to inspect anywhere, and the mission will have one special envoy and four deputy envoys, and there are four divisions under its jurisdiction, one of which will check the emperor's relatives and nobles, and the other will check the officials and generals above the third grade; Third, check the officials and military attaches above the sixth grade; Fourth, the officials and military attaches below the sixth rank are investigated, and there are a number of case-handling personnel, and as for the appointment and dismissal of special envoys and deputy envoys of the Qincha, please also ask the king to judge! ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a moment, and said to Zhao Ting: "Zhao Ting, you come to be this envoy, the imperial envoy doctor wants to occupy a deputy envoy position, Zhang Yansheng in the imperial history is a good material for supervision, not long after taking office, he has cracked a lot of big cases, arrested a group of corrupt and unjudicial officials, has quite a political achievement, and has been promoted to the imperial envoy doctor!" As for the other three deputy envoys, you will recommend them, and after finding them, they will be sent to the orphan report, and the Qincha mission will also be formed by you, and the general structure will be according to what Master Li just said, as for the case-handling officials and officials, all of them will be drawn from the existing yamen, and there is no need to recruit them from the people, so as not to increase the financial burden! ”

Zhao Ting didn't expect his father to let him be this envoy, this is an official position that offends people, but if this official does a good job, he can quickly establish his prestige in the court, it is not an opportunity, whether he wants to or not, he is willing to be this envoy, and if he is not willing to be, he will be the envoy.

"Yes, Father!" Zhao Ting agreed, raised his head and saw Lu Zhen standing not far from Zhao Ziliang's side, and immediately said: "Erchen wants to borrow Lu Zhan's affairs and let him be a deputy envoy to assist Erchen in handling official business, and the rest of the people will be recommended to his father after Erchen finds it!" ”

Zhao Ziliang turned his head and glanced at Lu Zhen, and promised: "Yes!" ”

"Anything else?"

Li Mi arched his hand again: "King, there is a serious shortage of officials in Shangshu Province, among which the position of Youcheng has been vacant for a long time, this is an important official position to assist Weichen in handling the affairs of the imperial court, the minister thinks that Lu Mai in the imperial history is honest and loyal, strict and lenient, not suitable to be the imperial history of the Cheng, the imperial history of the Cheng is the official directly responsible for handling major cases in the imperial history platform, should be ruthless, iron-faced and selfless, Lu Mai treats people generously, obviously a little inappropriate. This person is disciplined and does not seek personal gain; open-minded and humble; has a decent style and does not form gangs, which is a good material for being an administrative official, and Weichen asked to transfer him to be the right man of Shangshu! ”

Zhao Ziliang frowned and said: "The Imperial Historian is also the Imperial Envoy Doctor and the two Imperial Historians, now Zhang Yansheng has been promoted to the Imperial Envoy Doctor, the Imperial Envoy Doctor is mainly in charge of the overall situation, and is generally not responsible for specific cases, there is only one Imperial Historian Lu Mai left, now you have to recommend him to be the right scholar of Shangshu, isn't there no senior official in charge of business in the Imperial Historical Observatory?" ”

Li Mi said: "Weichen protects one person, and Philadelphia is too strict and strict!" This person once served as Jing Zhao Yin, quite a political achievement, this person in the current Jing Zhao Yin during the fight against the strong, not afraid of the powerful, jealous and hateful, because the then prime minister Liu Yan and his discord, was suppressed by Liu Yan, Lu Qi used him to deal with Liu Yan, let him do the imperial history of the Cheng, and later Lu Qi was worried that he was talented, trying to exclude him, and demoted him to Philadelphia as a guard. Originally, the minister thought that this person used public weapons for private purposes and reported personal vendettas, and arrested Zhao Huibo, the observer of the river, for no reason, in order to frame Liu Yan, but later after he was demoted to Philadelphia, he heard that Zhao Huibo was killed in prison by Lu Qi, and he was full of remorse for this, and specially wrote to declare his guilt and ask the court to punish him, which is Yan Ying's letter of guilt!"

The eunuch took the petition and handed it to Zhao Ziliang, who took it and looked at it.

Li Mi continued: "Weichen thought that Yan Ying was certainly at fault in the case of Zhao Huibo that year, but he had already recognized his mistake and felt deep remorse, if he didn't say it himself, no one in the world would know the truth of Zhao Huibo's case, and he could recognize his mistakes and speak out calmly and ask for punishment, which shows that he has reformed himself, and the minister thinks that he should be given a chance, which is consistent with the king's consistent advocacy, you can consider transferring him back to Beijing to serve as the imperial historian! ”

Zhao Ziliang turned his head and beckoned to Xuan Shibai who was standing by the wall, Xuan Shibai immediately understood, quickly turned around and walked into a small room next to him, and soon walked out of it and presented a scroll in his hand to Zhao Ziliang.

Zhao Ziliang took it and looked at it, this is Yan Ying's secret investigation file in the West Factory, the file of the Ministry of Officials only has a simple resume, and it is not detailed, while the file of the West Factory is very detailed. It is recorded in the case file that in addition to this case back then, Yan Ying had no other faults, and was still an extremely self-disciplined person. Moreover, during his tenure in the Imperial Historical Observatory, this person also put forward many suggestions to revise the laws of the imperial court, and handled many major cases, and he can be regarded as a cool official.

Zhao Ziliang closed the file and said to Li Yu: "Okay, I will order Yan Ying to enter Beijing to serve as the Imperial History Zhongcheng, and use the Imperial History Observatory to retry the case of Zhao Huibo, the observer of the river back then, and rehabilitate him!" ”

Li Mi arched his hand and said: "The king is wise, and the ministers obey the order!" ”

Within two days, the news came out from the government and the opposition that they were going to set up a mission to inspect the yamen of the imperial court and the local government offices, and everyone understood that this mission was established for the purpose of the recently promulgated several new Zheng roads, and its main role was to escort the implementation of these Zheng roads.

Not long after Lu Qi, Guan Bo and Yu Xin and others were demoted, the officials of Jingzhao Mansion and the county officials under their rule knew that the wind direction had changed, and the imperial court was serious this time, and the two prime ministers and a Shangshu were all degraded. It has also become normal for officials to be on duty at the yamen, and no one dares to arrive late and leave early at will.

Even the work efficiency and case-handling efficiency of the public security, supervision, and judicial yamen of the various prefectures and counties, such as the patrol and arrest bureaus, the imperial history department, and the Dali department, have been much faster, and this has caused the cracking rate of these public security, supervision, and judicial yamen to soar all the way, and many cases that have not been solved after years of accumulation have been solved.

In the next six months, due to the improvement of the work efficiency and the cracking rate of the patrol and arrest bureaus, the Imperial History Department and the Dali Division, the officials were serious and responsible in handling official duties, many criminal suspects and gangsters were arrested, the bandit nests in the green forest were exterminated, and the black forces that colluded with officials in various places were also eliminated, resulting in a large number of murderous people being imprisoned in prisons, resulting in overcrowding in prisons in various places.