After the conclusion of the court meeting, the principal officials of each yamen went back to convene the officials of their own yamen to give lectures and convey the decisions of the court meeting requiring each yamen to formulate an attendance system and carry out anti-corruption and clean government promotion. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the first few days, the officials who were used to being lazy in the yamen did not care, and those officials who were used to making money did not pay attention to it, but when the newly established inspection team of the regent palace inspected the military department and the criminal department, it was found that although the two yamen had formulated an attendance system, they were in vain, and there was no enforcement force at all.

Yan Zhenqing and Lu Sigong, who were seriously warned, were bombed at this time, and they squatted in the yamen every day to supervise the implementation of the attendance system by the main officials of the subordinate official offices and yamen, as long as they found that any of the yamen was not performing effectively, they would immediately suspend the other party's duties, and circulate and reprimand them throughout the system, and at the same time let their deputies continue to carry out the execution, and if they did not perform effectively, they would suspend the deputy's duties until someone could perform them.

As a result of this round of spot checks, one Lang Zhong, three foreign officers, six directors, four Lingshi, three pavilion chiefs, and five Zhanggu of the Military Department and the Criminal Department were suspended from their posts, and they were reprimanded and fined for three months and recorded in the files.

At the same time, the servants of the Imperial History Observatory were not idle, and in just five days, one of the three provinces, six ministries and nine Qing Yamen had one squire, two Langzhong, two foreign langs, and eight principals were taken away by the Yushitai for investigation due to corruption and perversion of the law.

For a time, the entire capital court and the various yamen began to make noise, the officials of the court no longer dare to ignore it, you must know that an official starts from the bottom, step by step to climb to the squire after more than ten years or even decades of officialdom, and has to go through countless conspiracy frame-ups and power struggles to get to this point, it is very easy to be an official who can do a certain department, it can be said that thousands of troops and horses walk a single-plank bridge, and there are only a few people who can pass it, and they attach special importance to and cherish this official position. If he is deprived of his official position, it is tantamount to cutting off his political career, which is worse than letting him die.

For the first time in history, the intensity of this rectification of officialdom is so great, the area is so extensive, and the punishment is so severe, that it can be said that for the first time in history, the officials no longer dare to wait and ignore it, and the cases of officials of the imperial court who are late, leave early, and do not sign in rarely happen again, and no one wants to lose their jobs or be driven out of the officialdom.

For Zhao Ziliang's rectification of the rule of officials, most of the officials are supportive, after all, the current imperial court has not been rotten to the point of incorrigibility, although many officials have such and such problems, but the problem is not big, they still have the ambition to ask for the people's life in their hearts, the former court officialdom was a pool of muddy waters, although many officials have ambitions and want to make a difference, but up to the emperor is deaf, down to the minister's inaction or even corruption and perversion of the law, these officials below them can only go with the flow, But now that Zhao Ziliang has begun to vigorously rectify the rule of officials, the new atmosphere of innovation has begun to take shape, and the Tang Dynasty is hopeful, and the ambition of these officials has returned, and they resolutely support Zhao Ziliang's governance strategy.

The office atmosphere of the various yamen of the imperial court was completely different, and with the supervision of the system, the officials changed their previous lazy and inactive style, and began to become diligent and capable, although there was an element of compulsion, but this was inevitable at the beginning.

Compared with the reaction of officialdom, the people around Chang'an, the capital, set off firecrackers, sang and danced to celebrate, and the people in Chang'an and the villages outside the city talked a lot after tea and dinner, full of hope for the future of Datang.

After the initial results of the rectification of the officials of the various yamen of the imperial court, Zhao Ziliang began to let the behavior of Zhongshu Province pass the examination of the Ministry of Men and be carried out by Shangshutai, and the whirlwind of the rectification of officials swept through the yamen of various government offices in various places, and the soldiers instructed Shangshu Province to transfer officials from the six ministries and Jiuqing Yamen to form a number of supervision groups and send them to all parts of the country to supervise the implementation. At the same time, the Imperial Historical Observatory, the Criminal Department, and the Dali Temple also dispatched officials to form a number of inspection groups to investigate officials in various localities who were corrupt and perverted the law.

In order to gain the support of the people and officials, and to achieve greater results, Zhao Ziliang ordered the Yushitai, the Criminal Department, and the Dali Temple to set up branches in the administrative organs at the state and county levels to supervise the officials of the government at the same level, and at the same time ordered the local state governments and counties to hand over the judicial, trial, and supervision powers, and the local government yamen was only responsible for administrative affairs, and the officials were no longer in charge, but only had the responsibility of supervision, and the specific implementation was carried out by the branches of the three law divisions.

At the same time, Zhao Ziliang also ordered the establishment of a reporting system in the yamen of the three legal divisions, and set up a report box outside the yamen, allowing anyone to report against illegal officials, but the report must have substantial evidence to be effective, and real-name reporting and anonymous reporting can be adopted respectively. If it is a real-name report, the yamen of the three legal divisions must immediately file a case for investigation.

Zhao Ziliang had a huge impact on the reform of the imperial court and the local government yamen, which undoubtedly touched a considerable part of the interests, and the imperial court yamen soon united to resist his reforms, politically, Zhao Ziliang is now a monopoly on power, and the emperor retreated to the deep palace, and the officials who opposed him had no way to confront him politically, so they could only secretly contact the Chang'an guards and wanted to overthrow Zhao Ziliang's rule by force, but these people found themselves very wrong, since the Fengxiang army rebellion was all executed, None of the armies in the court dared to act rashly, and all the leading generals and colonels began to monitor each other, lest someone secretly start a rebellion and implicate everyone else, and those who reported the rebellion were rewarded heavily. Some generals of the army were stared at even when they went to the toilet and made out with their wives.

Regent's Palace.

Du Fu hurriedly walked into the lobby of the main hall and reported to Zhao Ziliang: "Your Majesty, the people who are secretly in contact with the generals of the Wang family, the Wu family, and the Pei family who are preparing to launch a mutiny have all been captured, and they have been imprisoned in the prison waiting to be disposed of!" ”

Li Muchen stood up and arched his hand: "King, now that the wind is so tense, these families still have the courage to contact the generals in the army to launch a rebellion, it seems that our deterrence is not enough, and the means are not cruel enough, Weichen suggests that these families should be beheaded immediately, and not kill a large number of nobles and officials of the family, it is not enough to make some people die, and those people's hearts must be annihilated in the bud!" ”

Li Mi stood up and expressed his concerns: "King, in this case, the minister beware that someone will expand the problem, if it causes panic in the entire government and the opposition, I am afraid that the situation will be difficult to control!" ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a moment and said: "As long as people don't die, their hearts won't die!" Those who don't welcome us and oppose us, no matter what we do, they don't like it and are not happy. Even if we use the means more cruelly, they can't die, they will only endure, and then forbear, and when we slack off, when they show flaws, they will fight back, there is a saying that is not afraid of thieves stealing, just afraid of thieves, we can't always guard against those people, and we don't know who they are, if we want to eliminate the danger, we can only let them jump out by themselves! In the future, all such similar cases will be handed over to the three law divisions for trial, and everything will be judged according to the laws and regulations of the Tang Dynasty, and the judgment will be how it should be judged, neither expanding the scope nor tolerating adultery! It's not that I, Zhao Ziliang, want to attack them, it's not that I, Zhao Ziliang, can't tolerate them, it's that the Datang Laws will not let them go, they want to hate and take revenge, so they will go to the Datang Regulations! In addition, the list of lieutenant generals and colonels who reported them will be reported to these people for inspection, and those who are talented, loyal and reliable, will be promoted as appropriate, and those with mediocre talents will be rewarded. ”

Li Mi arched his hand and praised loudly: "The king is wise! ”

Since ancient times, there will always be people who stand up against the political propositions of the ministers and emperors, and even want to overthrow the current power structure, because their interests have been violated, and they naturally want to oppose them in order to protect their own interests, and the ministers or emperors who want to smoothly implement their political ideas will use power to eradicate these obstacles, drive away or eliminate those who oppose them, and make the road to governance unimpeded, as long as an order or an edict is enough.

But like Zhao Ziliang, who does not use power and only uses the law to deal with political opponents, no one has ever used it, and the use of law against political opponents is to use these people to break the law, let them go to prison, and then let the relevant yamen conduct a trial, which makes anyone have nothing to say, even those who are captured and killed will be willing to die, because the law makes them realize that they are wrong. If you use power to arrest or kill people without any reason or excuse, many people who do not know the truth may be used by people with intentions, and these people who are caught and killed and their relatives and friends will not be convinced.

Zhao Ziliang did this, so that Li Mi realized that this is the most clever way to attack political opponents, and it is also the most clever means of political struggle. But it also has limitations, and if the opponent does not break the law, then it is useless, and in many cases it is useless to a few people in the upper echelons of power, because these people no longer need to break the law themselves to achieve their goals, and some people do it for them.

At this time, Wen Haoran, the secretary in charge, brought a bunch of pieces of pieces and reported to Zhao Ziliang: "King, these are the recommended pieces of the court ministers for Jing Zhaoyin's candidates, a total of thirty-four copies!" ”

Zhao Ziliang smiled and said to everyone: "Look, Jing Zhaoyin's position is so popular, how many people are staring at it!" I'd like to see who they recommend! ”