Zhou Chong used thunder to rectify several ministers who opposed the most fiercely, and he was very serious. According to the charges found by the Jinyiwei, even if these officials do not die, they will not be able to get into the officialdom in the end, which makes those who oppose reforms.

The officials all shivered, after all, they themselves knew that they could not stand the investigation. If they continued to object, Zhou Chong would probably continue to investigate. As a result, they would not know how many people would fall to the same

The end.

People are selfish, especially officials in the officialdom. Most of them have studied hard for many years, and then worked hard to get the qualifications and status in the officialdom. In the end, they finally finally gained their fame and status today. They will not easily

Give up, so when they saw those birds who were beaten by Zhou Chong, they all retracted their heads. However, although they did not object on the surface, they still stubbornly obstructed the implementation of several reforms in secret.

It is the fact that local taxes are separated from the functions of local governments and then taken over by the Tax Department, which is completely uncontrolled by local governments, has been obstructed by countless local officials.

Zhou Chong had already expected the reaction in the Ming Dynasty officialdom, so he was unmoved at all. He first started with the easiest official salary to be paid entirely by the bank. This was the most prepared by Zhou Chong.

In addition, the salaries of officials have been greatly increased, so a considerable number of officials are still very welcome. After all, not everyone in the officialdom wants to be corrupt officials. Most of them are forced by meager salary and the trend of the officialdom.

Now Zhou Chong has given them a new choice, so many people are very welcome to this policy.

Of course, some officials are unwilling to receive their salaries from banks. Although their salaries have increased a lot, their income has become open and transparent, and their monthly income is fixed. Moreover, Zhou Chong has secretly asked someone to punish all officials.

With a vaccination, it would be fine if the corruption and bribery in the officialdom were not investigated, but if he had to do the corruption and bribery with a generous new salary, then don't blame Zhou Zhong for being ruthless, the Ming Dynasty

The Jinyiwei has been dispatched everywhere. The Jinyiwei, which has received sufficient financial support, has regained its vitality in the early Ming Dynasty. Now it is waiting for the officials to make mistakes so that they can make contributions.

Zhou Chong's strategy of light, dark, soft and hard indeed played a lot of role, especially the reputation of the Jinyiwei was still very intimidating in the officialdom. After all, during the Taizu and Chengzu Dynasty, the Jinyiwei's minions were four.

When they left, all the ministers in the court were in danger. They were afraid that one day they would be rushed to their homes. At that time, the Jinyiwei was simply synonymous with the god of death. As long as they had something to do with them, there would definitely be no good ending in the end.

Although the Jinyiwei in recent years has not been able to dominate the power of the past, the tyranny of the past has not been eliminated. Now Zhou Chong obviously wants to restore the Jinyiwei's strength again to shock the officialdom and increase his salary. With such a kindness and power, he is worthy of both kindness and power.

Except for a small number of people, most officials have begun to be honest in their official positions. They naturally dare not take what they should not have taken before. Of course, this does not mean that they will become honest officials in the future and everything will be

It also depends on whether Zhou Chong can continue this kind of supervision, otherwise if no one supervises, these people will soon regain their old ways.

In contrast, the bank's salary for officials is only a small matter, while other reforms are more difficult than each other. Zhou Chong is a person who likes to be easy first and then difficult, so after solving the problem of official salary.

The next step is to improve the functions of the Censorate and use it as the main institution for the Ming Dynasty to supervise all officials and local governments.

It is worth mentioning that Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, also distrusts the officials below, especially the matter of corruption. Therefore, among the official institutions of the Ming Dynasty, the Censorate, which has the function of supervising officials, was very distrustful.

He was assigned a very important task, which can be seen from the number of censors. For example, in the Tang and Song dynasties, there were only a few to a dozen censors, but the censors of the Ming Dynasty reached an amazing level.

More than 100 people divided the country into thirteen roads, each of which was established to supervise the censor. Although these censors were only seventh grade, their power was very high and their positions were far more arduous than before.

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However, although the Ming Dynasty's Censorate was larger than that in the Tang and Song dynasties, it was far from big enough for Zhou Chong, a person who traveled through time in later generations. After all, according to the political structure of the separation of powers in later generations, the Inspectorate was just

The judicial power in charge is very special, and at least it must be parallel to the cabinet. Now the cabinet is in charge of legislation and administration. Zhou Chong has no ability at all and does not intend to separate for the time being. However, the judicial power with supervisory functions must be from Daming.

The court will be independent. Only in this way can the execution of judicial affairs be avoided from administrative interference and avoid the occurrence of ** as much as possible.

It is precisely because of this that Zhou Chong's first thing after finishing his official salary was to improve the status of the Censorate. Originally, there were two highest promotions in the Censorate, namely the left and right censors.

They are all third-ranked, which is much worse than the first-ranked official of the cabinet major, so Zhou Chong established a general censor on the left and right censors, becoming the first official of the Censorate, with a rank of the Cabinet University.

The same scholars, and the Chief Censor can only be appointed and removed by the emperor. No one else has the right to accuse the Chief Censor. In addition, the ranks of the left and right Censors and the deputy Censors have also been improved, which has led to the ranks of the Censorate's officials.

It rose to a higher level all of a sudden.

However, if you want to improve the status of a government agency, it is far from enough to improve the rank of officials alone. You must also have corresponding real power. Zhou Chong formally assigned Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice to the jurisdiction of the Censorate in accordance with the political structure of the Ming Dynasty.

These two institutions are the most important criminal institutions in the Ming Dynasty.

In the past, together with the Censorate, the Ministry of Justice mainly decides on the trial of cases in the world, while the Dali Temple is mainly responsible for refuting and rehabilitating some unjust, false and wrong cases. The Censorate not only has the role of supervisor, but also for some

The case has the right to be arbitrary, which is equivalent to the Supreme Court of the Ming Dynasty. Generally, the case decided by the censorate is almost unlikely to reverse the case.

In the past, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Justice had no direct affiliation between the Censorate and the Dali Temple, but now Zhou Chong directly promoted the Censorate to the superior institution of the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice. In the future, the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice were also independent from the administrative organs of the Ming Dynasty.

When you go out, you will no longer be subject to any jurisdiction except the Censorate.

In addition, in order to allow the Censorate to better supervise all officials across the country, Zhou Chong specially temporarily placed the Jinyiwei under the management of the Censorate. In this way, the Jinyiwei's intelligence agency can also be used as the Censorate.

The energy generated by the joint efforts of two supervisory agencies in the hospital is terrifying. It is no exaggeration to say that as long as Zhou Chong is willing, he can check the details of an official in the shortest time.

Chu, even knew all the food the other party had eaten the day before yesterday.

Of course, the Jinyiwei is under the jurisdiction of the Censorate, which is just a temporary measure. After Zhou Chong completes the rectification of the officialdom in the future, the Jinyiwei will be separated from the jurisdiction of the Censorate. As for the future ownership of the Jinyiwei, Zhou Chong has also already

With the plan, it is to build the Jinyiwei into a professional intelligence agency, which is only responsible for the acquisition and collection of intelligence, but cannot have the power to arrest and torture like before.

In a short period of time, the Censorate already had the power to match it. Under this huge power, the censors in the capital and various places also began to change their roles and exercise their own powers. Especially the local supervision and control

History, they want to snatch the judicial part from the local government. After all, this is already the responsibility of their censorate. Of course, those local officials are definitely unwilling to see the loss of power in their hands, so this has caused a lot of them.

Fighting, but the Censor is already quite strong, and with the help of the Jinyiwei, the minions of the Jinyiwei, it is rare for officials from all over the country to compete for the Censorship. Moreover, even if they temporarily retain their power, the Censorate will not release it in the future.

After passing them, it's better to hand over them obediently.

However, in the process of the transformation of the Censorate, many problems arise. The most important thing is that some of the Censors of the Censorate are insufficient in their abilities and cannot follow the transformation of the Censorate. For these people, Zhou

Chong had no choice but to transfer him from the Censorate, and then he drew effective personnel from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice to replenish him. In addition, there were censors from some places colluded with local officials and did not pay attention to the imperial court's laws at all, so it was even more impossible to work hard.

Zhou Chong was naturally ruthless to serve these people, and even at the beginning of the rectification of the administration, the first batch of officials were the censors.

It will definitely take quite a while for the Censorate to completely transform into the independent judicial institution that Zhou Chong hopes. However, after Zhou Chong completely assigned the Ministry of Justice, Dali Temple, and local judicial institutions to the Censorate, the entire

The Censorate has already possessed a certain degree of independence, and they already have the function of supervising all officials. In this way, an organization that independently supervises the administrative power of the Ming Dynasty has been completed and is exercising its functions, which is

Zhou Chong's rectification of the administration also laid a solid foundation.

Although the changes in the Censorate involved the entire Ming Dynasty's power organs, it was relatively easy. First, the Censorate had a relatively large power, and second, the Censorate itself also benefited from it, so the Censorate

All the officials in the city supported Zhou Chong very much. With these people's support, it would be much easier to promote this reform. As for the opposition of other officials, there were naturally officials from the Censorate to quarrel with them, but the next two
Chapter completed!