"Remember."
"After he rejected your invitation, he lived alone at the foot of the mountain, raising chickens and farming. We followed him for a while, but then we stopped paying attention to him. There were so many things going on at that time.
Then one day, a villager came to report that he had been murdered and his food and chickens and ducks had been looted... and it was that bandit who did it."
"I remember Jane and I talked about him one day, but I didn't expect that he had died before that."
"Yes.
When we told the sergeant about Lao Zhang, he collapsed. He hadn't expected that his greed had cost him another life. He had thought that the man would simply disguise himself as a refugee and sneak into our refugee camp, turning over a new leaf..."
"This is a death sentence, right? I remember that I was the one who ultimately decided on all the death row prisoners. Why don't I have this impression?"
"For letting prisoners be taken on the battlefield and accepting bribes, which caused serious consequences, we were indeed planning to sentence him to death, and we will execute him the next day.
That night, he committed suicide in our military prison, which could be easily opened with a kick. He broke a wooden bar used for the gate and stabbed himself in the neck with the sharp end...
Since this is the first time we've encountered something like this, and the bandit was also executed, we've only presented you with the summary..."
"Let me think about it. Since everyone died, and enough people died every day in those days, you just let it go and didn't tell me separately, right?"
Lin Hai said angrily, "This is dereliction of duty. You have completely failed to notice the seriousness of this problem, and you have no idea how terrible it is to have an ant hole appear on the dam we carefully built!"
Wang Zuo stood up, not daring to breathe.
There is no need for Wang Zuo to report the current situation separately.
Lin Hai remembered the report submitted by the Supervisory Office.
In the year that Lin Hai became the Earl of Qinghe, ten economic crimes of varying sizes occurred in Qinghe, ranging from the market manager embezzling fees, accepting bribes, and helping a hawker drive away his competitors.
It was so serious that the village head appointed by Lin Hai himself embezzled most of the village reconstruction funds and materials, and hoped to complete the reconstruction project by conscripting the people for free labor.
In the entire reconstruction project, the one that was built with the best materials and was the most solid was the village head's house.
Lin Hai had an impression of this person.
He was Lin Hai's student, an administrative official trained by Lin Hai himself, and Lin Hai had high hopes for him.
Lin Hai, who was extremely angry at the time, directly ordered that he be sealed alive in a cement coffin and then buried upright.
That year, Lin Hai issued the document "Notice of the Qinghe Enlarged Conference - Resolutely Clean Up Corrupt Elements" and ordered severe penalties for economic cases.
This was supported by almost all the upper echelons at the time. The military even wanted to bring these corrupt elements to the training ground to test the power of new weapons - if they were buried alive with cement, wouldn't that be a waste of cement?
But harsh laws did not stop the outstretched hand.
Although Wang Liang, Lu You, Cheng Guorong and others publicly held several exercises using corrupt elements as targets, as Qinghe became increasingly prosperous, the signs of corruption were not only not stopped, but even spread to the army.
The following year, the Qinghe leadership again issued a series of documents, including "Several Provisions on Integrity in Politics of Military Leading Cadres", "Work Plan for Implementing the Qinghe Spirit and Deepening the Construction of the Military's System for Punishing and Preventing Corruption", "Detailed Rules for Preventing Duty Crimes in Key Areas of the Military", and "Provisions on the Military's Implementation of the Party's Responsibility System for Clean Government Construction". With the support of several major military giants, they used more stringent criminal laws to deal with corruption within the military.
High pressure did not bring peace.
Finally, a garrison captain on the border saw that he could no longer hide the truth, so he decided to launch a mutiny, murdered the military judge and the inspectorate staff who came to arrest him, and then fled to the Chen Dynasty with his confidants.
Fortunately, he went to Zhaoyang, where Xue Wuxia and his men were waiting for him.
In the end, Lin Hai had to increase the severity of punishment again. For economic crimes, not only would they be dealt with severely, but their families would also be implicated.
Once a person is convicted of an economic crime, not only will he be severely punished, all his personal property will be confiscated, and his family will also have to pay a high fine for him. This fine will basically end his hope of turning things around for three generations, after all, the fine also has interest.
Then, for three generations, they couldn't work in factories, government offices, or the military, and couldn't start their own business... In other words, they couldn't do any respectable, well-paid jobs. Even working as a waiter in a caravan would be looked down upon...
Yes, although this is not the extermination of three clans, let alone the extermination of nine clans, in the eyes of everyone, this is another form of genocide.
Once punished in this way, the descendants of this family will have no way out except to make a living by farming.
Of course, Lin Hai did not deny him a chance. If his family members were willing to join the army as a suicide squad and survived three charges, they could be pardoned.
In response to this, the giants of the Qinghe military have stated that they will strictly control the death rate of the suicide squad and will definitely not allow the unexpected situation where a prisoner survives after charging into the formation three times.
For Qinghe, every local official comes from Qinghe College, and every demoted official has to go to Qinghe College for further study, so Lin Hai is their principal, their boss, and even their emperor. Lin Hai believes in every student who walks out of Qinghe College.
Therefore, every anti-corruption action made Lin Hai very uncomfortable, and every time he signed a verdict, he would go crazy, and such pressure would be directly reflected on Wang Zuo.
Now, Wang Zuo finally couldn't bear it anymore.
"Okay, I get it. You've worked hard these days. I'll make the arrangements."
Lin Hai said so.
The next day, Emperor Lin Hai of the Qinghe Empire issued an imperial decree to abolish the Supervisory Department, a subordinate agency of the Ministry of Intelligence, and separated the power of supervising civil and military officials from the Ministry of Intelligence. The Supervisory Department of the Qinghe Empire was established, and the current Director of the Procuratorate, Zhang Jinnan, was appointed as the first Minister of the Supervisory Department. The Supervisory Department reported directly to the Emperor of the Empire and was not under the control of the Prime Minister.
Since then, a new round of anti-corruption struggle in Qinghe has begun.
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