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    Zhou Zhong used thunderous means to punish several ministers who were most opposed to the reform, and he was very harsh. According to the charges found by the Jinyiwei, even if these officials were not killed, they would not be able to hang out in the officialdom in the end. This made those who opposed the reform  All the officials shuddered in unison. After all, they themselves knew that they could not withstand the investigation. If they continued to object, I am afraid Zhou Zhong would continue the investigation all the way. As a result, no one knows how many people would fall into the same trap.  end.  People are selfish, especially officials in the officialdom. Most of them have studied hard for many years, and then worked hard to gain seniority in the officialdom. In the end, they finally achieved the fame and status they have today. They will not give up easily.  They gave up, so when they saw those few outstanding birds being knocked down by Zhou Zhong, they all retracted their heads. However, although they no longer opposed it on the surface, they secretly still stubbornly obstructed the implementation of several reforms, especially  The matter of local taxation being separated from the functions of local governments and then being taken over by the Taxation Department, which was completely outside the control of local governments, was obstructed by numerous local officials.  Zhou Zhong had already anticipated the reaction from the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, so he was not moved at all. He first started with the easiest matter, which was that official salaries were completely distributed by banks. This was the matter for which Zhou Zhong was most prepared, and then  In addition, officials' salaries have been significantly increased, so a considerable number of officials are very welcome. After all, not everyone in the officialdom wants to be a corrupt official. Most of them are forced by the meager salary and the atmosphere in the officialdom.  , now Zhou Zhong has given them a new choice, so many people welcome this policy.  Of course, there are also officials who 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 people to vaccinate all officials. In the past, corruption and bribery in the officialdom were forgotten. He would not pursue them again, but if he received a generous new salary, he would still do those things.  , then don¡¯t blame Zhou Chong for being ruthless, the Ming Dynasty¡¯s Jin Yiwei has been dispatched everywhere.  With sufficient financial support, Jinyiwei has regained the vitality of the early Ming Dynasty and is now waiting for officials to make mistakes so that they can make meritorious deeds.  Zhou Zhong¡¯s strategy of overt, covert, soft and hard.  It did play a lot of roles, especially the notoriety of the Jinyiwei was still very intimidating in the officialdom. After all, during the dynasties of Taizu and Chengzu, Jinyiwei's minions were everywhere.  All the ministers in the court are in danger.  I was afraid that Jin Yiwei would rush into my home one day. At that time, Jin Yiwei was simply synonymous with the god of death. As long as I had anything to do with them, there would definitely be no good ending in the end.  Although the Jin Yiwei has lost its prestige in recent years, the lustful power of the year has not been eliminated. Now Zhou Zhong obviously wants to restore the strength of the Jin Yiwei again, so as to intimidate the officialdom, and increase his salary.  With such equal emphasis on kindness and power, except for a few people.  Most of the officials have started to work honestly. Naturally, they dare not take things that they should not have done before. Of course, this does not mean that they will be honest officials in the future. Everything depends on whether Zhou Zhong can take these things.  This kind of supervision continues, otherwise if there is no one to supervise, these people will soon relapse into their old ways.  In comparison, the bank's issue of official salaries was just a minor issue, while several other reforms were more difficult than the last. Zhou Zhong was a person who liked the easy things first and then the difficult ones, so after solving the official salary issue,  , the next step is to enhance the functions of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and make it the main agency for supervising officials and local governments in the Ming Dynasty.  It is worth mentioning that Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, also had great distrust of the officials below him, and especially hated corruption and corruption. Therefore, among the official institutions of the Ming Dynasty, the Metropolitan Procuratorate had the function of supervising officials.  They were assigned very important tasks. This can be seen from the number of censors. For example, in the Tang and Song Dynasties, there were only a few to more than a dozen censors, but the number of censors in the Ming Dynasty reached an astonishing number.  There were more than a hundred people in the country, and the country was divided into thirteen tracts. Each tract set up a Tao Supervisory Censor. Although the rank of these censors was only seventh grade, their power was very great, and their duties were far more onerous than before.  Much.  However, although the Metropolitan Procuratorate of the Ming Dynasty was larger than that of the Tang and Song Dynasties, it was far from big enough for Zhou Zhong, a person who traveled through time in later generations. After all, according to the political structure of separation of powers in later generations, the Procuratorate was  He is in charge of the judicial power and has a very special political status. It must be at least parallel to the cabinet. Now the cabinet is in charge of legislation and administration. Zhou Zhong has no ability at all and has no plans to separate it for the time being. However, the judicial power with supervisory functions must come from the Ming Dynasty.  Only in this way can the court be independent, and the execution of justice will not be interfered by the administration and the occurrence of corruption can be avoided as much as possible.  It is precisely because of this that the first thing Zhou Zhong did after finishing the official salary matters was to improve the status of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Originally, there were two highest promotions in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, namely, the left and right censors.  They are all of the third grade, which is quite different from the first grade of the cabinet bachelor.Therefore, Zhou Zhong set up a general censor on top of the left and right censors, who became the chief official of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. His rank was the same as that of the cabinet bachelor, and the general censor could only be appointed and removed by the emperor. Others  No one has the right to accuse the chief censor. In addition, the grades of the left and right censors and the deputy censors have also been improved. This has suddenly raised the grade of the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to a higher level.  However, if you want to improve the status of a government agency, it is not enough just to upgrade the official rank. You must also have corresponding real power. According to the political structure of the Ming Dynasty, Zhou Zhong officially placed Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.  , these two institutions are the most important criminal institutions in the Ming Dynasty.  In the past, together with the Metropolitan Procuratorate, they were called the Three Justice Departments. Among them, the Criminal Department was mainly responsible for deciding the trial of cases all over the country. The Dali Temple was mainly responsible for refuting and redressing some unjust, false and wrong cases. The Metropolitan Procuratorate not only had the responsibility of supervision, but also adjudicated some cases.  The case has arbitrary power, which is equivalent to the Supreme Court of the Ming Dynasty. Generally, it is almost impossible to reverse the case decided by the procuratorate.  In the past, the Metropolitan Procuratorate did not have a direct reporting relationship with Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment, but now Zhou Zhong directly promoted the Metropolitan Procuratorate to the superior agency of Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment. In the future, Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment will also become independent from the administrative agencies of the Ming Dynasty.  When you go out, you will no longer be subject to any jurisdiction except the Metropolitan Procuratorate.  In addition, in order to allow the Metropolitan Procuratorate to better monitor all officials across the country, Zhou Zhong temporarily placed Jinyiwei under the management of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. In this way, Jinyiwei's intelligence agency can also provide services for the Metropolitan Procuratorate.  Used by the hospital, the energy generated by the two supervisory agencies, the overt and the covert, can be said to be very terrifying. It is no exaggeration to say that as long as Zhou Zhong is willing, he can find out the details of an official in the shortest time.  He even knew exactly what the other party had eaten the day before yesterday.  Of course, Jin Yiwei was placed under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. This was only a stopgap measure. After Zhou Zhong completed the rectification of officialdom in the future, Jin Yiwei would be separated from the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. As for the ownership of Jin Yiwei in the future, Zhou Zhong has also already  The plan is to build Jinyiwei into a professional intelligence agency, only responsible for obtaining and collecting intelligence, but it will not have the power to arrest people and torture as before.  In a short period of time, the Metropolitan Procuratorate already had the power to match it. With this huge power, the censors in the capital and various places also began to change their roles and exercise their powers.  Especially the local supervisory censors, they want to take the judicial aspect away from the local government. After all, this is already the responsibility of their procuratorates. Of course, those local officials definitely don¡¯t want to see the power in their hands drained, so  This caused a lot of fights, but the supervisory censor was already relatively strong, and with the help of the Jinyiwei group of minions, officials from all over the country could rarely compete with the supervisory censor, and even if they temporarily retained their power, they would be in trouble in the future.  The Procuratorate will not let them go, so it is better to hand them over obediently.  However, in the process of the transformation of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, many problems also emerged. The most important one is the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Some censors are not capable enough to follow the changes of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. For these people, Zhou  Zhong had no choice but to transfer him away from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and then transferred capable manpower from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment to supplement it. In addition, there were also some local censors who were in cahoots with local officials. They did not pay attention to the court's laws at all, let alone work hard.  Zhou Chong was naturally merciless to these people who served the imperial court. Even at the beginning of the rectification of officialdom, these censors were the first batch of officials to be killed.  It will definitely take a long time for the Metropolitan Procuratorate to be completely transformed into the independent judicial institution that Zhou Zhong hoped for. However, after Zhou Zhong completely transferred the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and local judicial institutions to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the entire  The Metropolitan Procuratorate already has a certain degree of independence, and in addition they have the function of supervising hundreds of officials. In this way, an institution that independently supervises the administrative power of the Ming Dynasty is completed and is performing its functions. This is  Zhou Zhong's reorganization of officialdom also laid a solid foundation.  Although the changes in the Metropolitan Procuratorate involve the entire Ming Dynasty's power organs, it is relatively easy. Firstly, the power of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is relatively large, and secondly, the Metropolitan Procuratorate itself also benefits from it, so the Metropolitan Procuratorate  The officials in the Central Government all gave Zhou Chong extremely support. With the support of these people, it would be much easier to promote this reform. As for the opposition of other officials, naturally there were officials from the Metropolitan Procuratorate who quarreled with them, but the next two  This reform was very troublesome, even giving Zhou Chong a headache.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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