Chapter 239 Ending
In late August, Jingxi officials were taken aback by the "Clean West" operation that pulled away from Fengri City. Especially the local officials in Fengri City, some were arrested in the dungeon to die in the middle of the night, and some woke up to find that half of their colleagues in the yamen were missing.
The official face is always the weather vane of a place, and any shocks in the official face will quickly spread to the street, directly affecting some big merchants.
Then, there were some repetitions. After the bloody arrest in the Fengri City area, there was a subtle stalemate in other places in Jingxi: Xuanqingwei's attitude was ambiguous, but he was not too tough when he wanted to arrest people, and the local yamen tried their best to protect them.
Many people who saw this scene breathed a sigh of relief. They felt that Xuanqingwei had reached a tacit understanding with the local government. range of turmoil.
But within a few days after putting this heart back, the wind direction in Jingxi changed drastically again.
The Xuanqing guards, who had been ambiguous before, seemed to have changed people. One by one, they started to take people everywhere with murderous intent, changing their hesitant and procrastinating attitude before. Even in order to act quickly, several procrastinating general banners under the Xuanqing Guard were directly dismissed and investigated. The local yamen still wanted to jump out of the death insurance like before, but in the end they put themselves in a lot of people.
There are many letters of appeal, but the reply from above is uniform and chilling: Xuan Qingwei was ordered to investigate and handle a series of smuggling cases, and the local yamen must not interfere, otherwise he will be convicted of the same crime.
Now many people's hearts are so cold, and it's too late to run away. In less than five days, all the officials, dignitaries, and merchants involved in the smuggling case in Jingxi were arrested and brought back to the Xuanqingwei Prison. Few slipped through the net, and it was only a matter of time before they were arrested and brought to justice by sea arrest documents. .
By mid-September, you thought things were over, right?
not at all.
On the contrary, it intensified.
First of all, it was Jingxi, none of the people who had been rushed before could withstand Xuan Qingwei's methods, and they vomited everything they could. This is good, and Jingxi, who had been calm for a few days, once again set off a bloody storm. And this time most of the targets are officials in the Yamen establishment.
Three of the chief officials in the major cities were arrested, and there were countless officials in the subordinate towns. A half-empty yamen is not a joke, it's a fact.
No matter how frightened the officials below are, in the end the only care from above is to appoint new officials here as soon as possible, or promote them in situ, barely maintaining the operation of basic institutions in various places.
It was also mid-September, and the arrests that were originally limited to the Jingxi area spread all at once, and Xuansu spread all over the country. The only difference from Jingxi is that the investigator is no longer Xuan Qingwei, but the Ministry of Punishment.
But in terms of investigative power, it is not much worse than Xuanqingwei, but the methods are much gentler. Most of the people arrested and imprisoned are unwashable goods, and some who can be jumped are held accountable. Demotion and fine salary. Compared with Jingxi, it is much better.
In addition to the places, the biggest influence is more on the temples.
Thousands of officials from all over the country were imprisoned or dismissed from office, which dealt an extremely heavy blow to the overwhelmingly dominant civilian group in the temple.
Especially in terms of prestige, and the leadership ability of the head boss has been seriously questioned.
If the leadership is good, how can the subordinates become so rotten without knowing it? In the end, Xuan Qingwei grabbed his tail and beat him violently.
In addition, many officials with clear thinking have also realized a problem: civil servants like to weave personal connections. It seems that many things are indeed much easier after being united, but secretly this kind of personal connections are also breeding corruption and bad bugs. Words are not a good thing.
Even thinking about it carefully, if these connections are used for bad things, wouldn't it be harmful to You Lie?
In addition, everyone is well aware that this kind of grouping behavior is actually not much different from "forming a party and private business".
There are actually quite a few people who reflect this way.
There are also some people who were frightened into a cold sweat but dared not speak out against those big bosses who failed in the battle in the temple. They all have their own news channels, and they were almost involved this time.
Later, I heard gossip from various ministries in the imperial city that Xuan Qingwei directly obtained the investigative authority from the emperor in Jingxi, and there was no way around it. However, the group of people in other areas of the country that were taken down by the Ministry of Criminal Justice was pushed to death by the big bosses above, and it seemed that they had drafted a roster before the investigation began.
It sounds like a joke, maybe in the eyes of the big bosses above, these bitter hahas below them are just things that can be sold by the catty.
If there is resentment, there will be no respect and awe for the voices above.
Don't trust the above too much. It's better to be more steady in doing things, so as not to be caught and beaten to death if you have a little bit of a handle, the people above may not be able to keep them.
The effect of the purge for a while is surprisingly good. At least none of these newly appointed officials dared to act recklessly, and waited cautiously for the limelight to pass.
It wasn't until the end of September that things gradually calmed down. There were still some sporadic incidents, but they didn't care about the overall situation.
Fengri City was the first to restore order, and many people on the official scene were unfamiliar faces, and now the most feared is Xuan Qingwei in black brocade robes, conditioned reflexes.
And there is another name in Fengri City that is not deeply tabooed, that is Xuanqingwei Heiqi Camp Hundred Household Officer Shen Hao.
The new official was told by the old man that Shen Hao had the name of evil star before, and someone from above took care of him. In Fengri City, even the officials of thousands of households could not do anything about him, and even offended a large number of people, but still Get promoted and get rich. What's more, what they give out is human life and wealth, this "cleaning the west" operation is the first to be launched by this evil star!
Such gossip seemed to be ignored, and it naturally spread throughout the area of Fengsun City, and Shen Hao's reputation as a malevolent star was immediately confirmed. Although he is still a mere Hundred Household Officer, no one dares to underestimate him. Even seeing him would instinctively be on guard.
Even Wu Changhe no longer treats Shen Hao with the same superior attitude as before, and feels that this Shen is evil in his heart.
But Shen Hao didn't have the mind to care about the words outside, he continued to busy with other things after the action in Fengri City was basically over, and now he couldn't take any time off.
Taking advantage of the dismissal of nearly half of the officials in Fengri City, a large number of vacancies were promoted, and many were transferred from other places. These people who are officials in other places bring at most a few personal servants and family members, and other handymen, nurses, etc. are not just looking for them locally.
This is a godsend opportunity for the Blackwater Project led by Shen Hao.