I want to be emperor

The market sometimes needs to ensure a certain degree of fairness and justice, even if it is only superficially fair and just.

Otherwise, there will be a situation where bad money will drive out good money. At that time, let alone industrial development, we will be thankful if we don't regress significantly.

The large-scale government-business collusion has seriously affected the industrial and commercial development of the Great Chu Empire, which undoubtedly angered Luo Zhixue again.

Luo Zhixue doesn't care much about ordinary corruption issues. As long as there are no bad negative effects, in fact, he often pretends not to know, letting the Procuratorate fight wits with those corrupt officials, or let the officials Finding faults and exposing faults among themselves.

However, when the scale and height of government-business collusion reaches a certain level, and even becomes a social trend, it will seriously affect the development of industry and commerce, and this is what Luo Zhixue cannot bear.

Ever since Chengshun's 12th year, Luo Zhixue has launched a new round of anti-corruption and rectification, focusing on the collusion between officials and businessmen.

At the same time, a series of regulations and measures were issued to restrict officials and direct family members from doing business.

At the same time, in the investigation process, the tax department also actively participated and played a great role.

Because many cases involve money transactions, many officials have a large amount of illegal income. For tax officials, they don't care how you make money, but if you make money and don't pay taxes, they will manage...

And corrupt officials... Naturally, few of them will declare their illegal income and pay taxes in a proper manner.

So during that period of time, the tax police were busier than the anti-corruption police... every day they were busy investigating the tax evasion of corrupt officials.

Among the dozens of high-ranking officials above the third rank who were killed in those few years, more than half were directly planted on the tax police.

After all, these people are also smart people, and they do things such as collusion between officials and businessmen or using power for personal gain very covertly. At the same time, the current series of laws of the Great Chu Empire are actually not very perfect.

When they take advantage of various legal loopholes, you clearly know that they are corrupt officials, but the anti-corruption patrols can't form a chain of evidence... and without a complete chain of evidence, you can suspect him of corruption and pervert the law, and even the superiors can directly dismiss them Their official positions (administrative appointments and removals do not require evidence), but it is not easy to convict them directly.

However, due to legal loopholes and other reasons, they cannot be directly convicted of corruption and bribery, which does not mean that law enforcement agencies have no choice.

The censors of the People's Procuratorate and the tax officials from the Ministry of Taxation combined... and then conducted a tax investigation on these corrupt officials...

Now the matter is simple. These corrupt officials can take advantage of various loopholes and avoid charges of corruption and bribery in various ways, but it is difficult to take advantage of the loopholes in the tax laws of the Great Chu Empire...

The most complete and strict legal clauses in the Great Chu Empire are not all kinds of messy laws such as criminal laws and civil laws, but tax laws!
How should I put it, you can compare the number of legal clauses. A single tax law has more clauses than other legal clauses combined!
And there are some clauses that are particularly nonsensical. The tax law clearly stipulates that any personal income must be actively declared and paid personal income tax...

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For example, if you pick up money on the ground, this money also has to pay accidental income tax.

Nobody does that in real life...but the law is the law.

Most of the time, the tax officials are actually too lazy to talk to you, but when it is really necessary, they can bring out the provisions of these tax laws and arrest people.

And the actual income of these corrupt officials obviously exceeds their legal after-tax income... No matter how the money comes from, but tax evasion will definitely not escape.

As long as people are arrested, and then slowly break through, follow the vines to form a complete chain of evidence for corruption and perversion of the law, and then the crimes of corruption and perversion of the law and tax evasion and other crimes will be combined for trial... Well, basically they all went to see King Yama!

There are also a very small number of people whose identities are so special and whose means of doing things are so clever that even the tax officials can't help them.

Don't worry, there is also the Internal Affairs Department of the Imperial Academy.

The internal affairs department of the Hanlin Academy is more simple and straightforward. It directly retrieves the relevant files of this high-ranking official from the file room. Basically, there will be all the criminal records in it, and then hand it over to the Inspectorate to arrest people. As for The internal affairs department itself, people don't dare to fight against corruption.

Anti-corruption matters are not within the scope of their business, and if the internal affairs department is really required to fight corruption... Unless there are extremely special circumstances, Luo Zhixue will generally not use the internal affairs department of the Imperial Academy.

Similarly, the intelligence materials of many officials collected by the Internal Affairs Division are also top-secret materials, and it is impossible to read them without Luo Zhixue's will, let alone use them as criminal evidence.

Because if the Internal Affairs Department of the Imperial Academy is really used as an anti-corruption agency, no one in the officialdom of the Great Chu Empire will be available.

This is no fun!
There must be a degree in everything, this is one of Luo Zhixue's codes of conduct.

Of course, this is only for others!

For an emperor, rules have always been required of others.

Otherwise, Luo Zhixue would not have reformed the Royal Music and Dance Troupe... and let the Queen Wang be in charge of the reform, he himself didn't care.

Not to mention, Queen Wang deserves to be the daughter of a traditional gentry family. The hostess education she received since she was a child made her handle the affairs of the harem with ease.

The reform of the Royal Music and Dance Company was very successful!

Just as it is now, Luo Zhixue watched the performance of the Royal Music and Dance Troupe, and couldn't remember what the Music and Dance Troupe looked like a few years ago.

Looking at the performances of more than a dozen Royal Music and Dance Troupes in front of him, Luo Zhixue was very glad that he married a woman who knew the general situation.

It was not wrong to choose the queen as the queen back then. Over the years, the queen and the royal family have not caused any trouble, and the queen is also very sophisticated in handling the affairs of the harem.

At least this music and dance troupe has been reformed quite well. The dancers have a solid artistic foundation. Even if they dance a little more, even if they wear less clothes, they still won't look wrong in a dirty place. It feels like a classic show.

It makes people feel that their dance is very serious.

Looking at it, Luo Zhixue thought that maybe he could design a few sets of costumes for them to use as performance costumes, and at any rate it could be considered as a contribution to the innovation of the costume culture of the Great Chu Empire.

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After all, I am the emperor of the Great Chu Empire. In addition to agriculture, commerce and other important livelihood issues, I also need to focus on some culture and art, such as clothing culture.

After all, the Great Chu Empire is a traditional Chinese dynasty, and the country of Huaxia is a country of etiquette, and it also has the beauty of obedience.

Moreover, the development of clothing not only represents the change of the aesthetics of the times, but also contains the profound significance of the development of the times: the liberation of productive forces!
Throughout history, especially modern history, it can be found that the development and changes of clothing, especially women's clothing, are often accompanied by major era changes such as the liberation of women, the liberation of labor, and the improvement of productivity.

The most representative of them is nothing more than the Western European women's corsets have been completely thrown into the historical garbage dump. The existence of this thing is the persecution of women's bodies, and the demise of the corsets also means the liberation of European women. And the emancipation of women means that a considerable part of the female labor force is liberated.

Its historical significance and positive significance to social development are no less than the liberation of little feet in China.

Luo Zhixue feels that the Great Chu Empire now has the possibility and demand for women's clothing reform, and can further promote the improvement of productivity.

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It's the same as when I vigorously promoted the liberation of little feet in the early years and completely banned official women's paperwork.

At the beginning of the founding of the Great Chu Empire, it was completely forbidden to bind the feet of officials' female scrolls, and offenders were severely punished. At the same time, they continued to publicize the dangers of foot binding for many years.

Up to now, women born in the new era in the Great Chu Empire basically no longer have their feet bound.

Needless to say, women from lower-class families do not have their feet bound. The lower-class women need to work, and the work they need to do is no less than that of men. If their feet are bound, they will not be able to do heavy work.

So foot binding or something has nothing to do with them.

But for women in the upper-middle class, this ban has greatly affected them and improved their health, because if women in these upper-middle-class families bind their feet, once they are found, then Their fathers or husbands will be greatly hindered in their careers.

It's okay not to be discovered, once discovered, and then reported by political opponents, it will be a matter of minutes to lose the official and resign.

It has been developed to the present, and I dare not say that it has been completely banned, but there are very few women in the empire who bind their feet.

The same is true for women's clothing, Luo Zhixue is also planning to make some changes... I am getting tired of seeing the women in the harem wearing improved Hanfu every day.

Recently, Luo Zhixue began to miss the outfits of those wriggling ladies and sisters he had seen in his previous life.

When the song was over and the lead dancer of the music and dance troupe stepped forward and spoke softly, Luo Zhixue looked at the faintly visible tulle Hanfu style dance dress on her body.

Immediately, I asked the maid who was waiting next to me to get a dip pen and paper, and drew a few simple patterns on the paper. It was not a complicated thing, it was the bikini that everyone in the future would know.

After a few simple strokes, Luo Zhixue showed the drawing to the lead dancer next to him, and said at the same time:

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"The times are developing, and the sound of machinery is spreading across the land of China. We must not lag behind in clothing culture, and must keep pace with the times."

The lead dancer glanced at the pattern, even though she didn't wear much on her body now, but when she imagined herself wearing this kind of belt and a few small pieces of cloth, she couldn't help but blush...

Luo Zhixue didn't pay attention to her blushing, and just said to himself: "I'll get someone to make it later, you can try it on first, and I'll see the effect. By the way, don't spread the design of the new clothes."

"Although the reform and progress of clothing culture are of great significance and have a great role in promoting social development and the liberation of productive forces, we must also maintain a cautious attitude in bold reforms."

Luo Zhixue doesn't want people to think he is an lsp...

Things like bikinis, maybe, maybe, maybe, there is a high probability that they will not be accepted by contemporary people.

Therefore, some reforms and progress are not suitable to be announced to the public because their impact is too great.

As he said that, his interest also came, and he used a pen to draw a lot of clothes designs in a row, such as short cheongsams with slits to the armpits, short skirts with suspenders, sailor suits, and other messy clothes I have drawn a lot.

The leading dancer next to her looked at her, she blushed at first, then parted her red lips slightly, with a look of shock... even though she knew that her Majesty was not a gentleman.

Hmm... A normal gentleman probably wouldn't teach a group of them how to dance like this...

But the design of these clothes still broke her inherent impression of Luo Zhixue, her majesty is more... even more...

After Luo Zhixue finished drawing, he put down the pen and paper, and said: "Let's do this first, this pen is still not good, it's inconvenient to draw, I will use charcoal pen to draw in detail later!"

As he said that, looking at the dip pen in his hand, he thought that it is time for someone to get out a real fountain pen. This kind of dip pen is troublesome to use, and it needs to be dipped in ink from time to time. It is very troublesome to draw a design. .

This kind of pen was designed by Luo Zhixue himself and made by others in his early years.

Because he deals with a lot of official documents every day and needs to write a lot of words, this brush is too slow to write, and it takes up a lot of paper, and it is not so easy to write with a small brush.

The fonts used in official documents are Guange style. This kind of font pays attention to the sameness. It looks the same as the printed font, but because it is the same as the printed font, it is very laborious to write.

In order to make it easier for him to write various official documents, Luo Zhixue tried to use a quill pen, but after using it, he felt that it was not very good, so he decided to think about the design himself, and asked the engineers below to realize the manufacturing, and finally came up with a dip pen.

Of course, this is just the most primitive dip pen, and it needs to be dipped in ink after a while.

Because it is indeed more convenient and faster to write with a dipped pen, and more importantly, there is something good about the top and something for the bottom. up...

Such dipped pens were gradually popularized in the official circles of the Great Chu Empire, and later developed into schools and even enterprises.

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Nowadays, dipped pens are very common in the official study and office of the Great Chu Empire. Of course, the emergence and development of dipped pens did not make the brush die directly. The calligraphy still exists and is still the mainstream of society.

For example, when contemporary people write private letters or other documents that are not too serious, most people are still accustomed to writing with a brush in the words that can reflect calligraphy.

Even for official documents, many people continue to use brushes, and there is no restriction on this. Basically, you can use whatever you like, as long as you get the job done.

How should I put it, Luo Zhixue did not forcefully stipulate what kind of pens people or even officials use, and what you like to use, but there are rules for fonts.

In order to prevent officials from writing official documents in such a messed-up cursive that even the author himself could not recognize after a while, Luo Zhixue had stipulated many years ago that all memorials must be written in standard fonts.

The Ministry of Etiquette clearly stipulated that all official documents and other fonts must be standard fonts. This standard font is actually "Guange Style", and Guan Ge Style has also been the standard font for various official documents since the Ming Dynasty.

It's not for the sake of looks, artistry, etc. It's purely because this thing is actually the same lower case, but it is precisely because of the sameness that it is highly recognizable and will not be mistaken.

But this kind of font is very convenient to read, but it is not easy to write with a brush. How many imperial examination candidates have spent many days and nights of youth in order to practice their first-hand Guange style.

Even if you have practiced it, it is very laborious to write official documents in pavilion style in daily work. What's more disgusting is that the fonts in official documents are not large. You can't write only a few words on a piece of paper. You I have to write a lot of words.

It is also impossible for a random report of a few thousand words to come with dozens of pages of paper, a thick stack!

Therefore, the fonts in the official documents are very small.

When the brush characters are small enough, the difficulty of writing will increase sharply. It's not so easy to write small letters...

This is also the reason why dip pens are popular in officialdom, the reason is very simple, because it is convenient and fast to use small standard fonts that are easy to write.

As for the font art and the like, there is no art in the pavilion style, and you are not even allowed to engage in any artistry.

The Guange style in the former Ming Dynasty and even the current Great Chu Empire belonged to the pure official script style, which emphasizes the uniformity, high degree of uniformity, easy identification, and no mistakes. If you insist on using personalized artistic fonts, you will Be criticized.

The dip fountain pen appeared and developed in this background, but Luo Zhixue is still not satisfied with this dip fountain pen, mainly because dipping ink from time to time is annoying.

He thought that it would be great if there was a fountain pen. After so many years, the technology has improved a lot compared to ten years ago, and it might be possible to make it.

When Luo Zhixue thought of this, he kept this matter in his heart, and planned to ask the people from the Ministry of Industry to do one tomorrow.

As for now, he will continue to guide the lead dancer of the music and dance troupe and the clothing culture of other backup dancers.

Although bikinis and other new-age clothing are only on the drawing board, sometimes advanced things do not mean everything, let alone completely abandon the tradition because of this.

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To be honest, Luo Zhixue quite likes various styles of improved Hanfu made of tulle and silk, which have both the elegance of traditional humanism and the new era, mixed together, there is a feeling of collision between the old and the new.

Therefore, Luo Zhixue soon immersed himself in the collision of tradition and new era!

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The next morning, after Luo Zhixue got up surrounded by more than a dozen dancers from the music and dance troupe, the lead dancer next to him leaned over and whispered in Luo Zhixue's ear: "The concubine asked the tailor in the palace to make a new one today." Clothes."

Luo Zhixue grabbed a pink silk gauze jacket and put it on her: "It's cold in the morning in autumn, and it's easy to catch cold naked!"

"You can make a few more sets of those new designs. You can try them all, or you can make up a new dance or something. I'll see how the design and tailoring are going later."

After leaving the dancers of the music and dance troupe, Luo Zhi learned to take a hot bath in the bedroom, and then went to the front hall after having a simple breakfast.

Although Luo Zhixue also likes to play, but to be honest, he never let the women in the harem affect his work.

There has never been such a thing as a king not going to court early, let alone being absent from work directly.

Of course... In fact, Luo Zhixue never went to the early court, because the Great Chu Empire didn't have such a thing as early court.

Luo Zhixue doesn't want to get up and go to work before dawn... Nima, I can't all time travel to become the emperor, and my life is worse than that of office workers in later generations.

Anyway, 997 doesn't have to get up and go to work before dawn.

Therefore, the Great Chu Empire did not have such a thing as morning court. On weekdays, there were only morning meetings, and the scale was small. Basically, the rotating ministers and co-organizers participated. Sometimes there were seven or eight people, and sometimes there were a dozen or so people to discuss some daily affairs. affairs.

The courtiers generally call it the "Imperial Morning Meeting". In the early years, it started at 07:30 in the morning, but later Luo Zhixue felt that it was too early and there was no time to prepare...so he simply postponed the morning meeting to 08. :30.

Luo Zhixue usually arrives at the imperial study in the front hall, which is his office, at around 08 o'clock, and then briefly reviews the relevant reports of the morning meeting, and drinks some tea to clear his mind. Meeting around 30.

From the time of this meeting, it can be seen that Luo Zhixue actually does not meet the definition of a hardworking emperor these days, but what makes people very puzzled is that even though Luo Zhixue started to deal with government affairs so late, he was still able to manage The empire is firmly in the hands, and there is no situation where the power is left behind.

And this is the institutional factor.

The ministers and co-organizers of the Government Administration Council, together with the independent ministries, the corresponding departments of the Imperial Academy, the Great Inspectorate, the Court of Justice, as well as the Military Affairs Council and various military ministries of the military, formed the content of the Great Chu Empire. A balanced and stable operating system has been established.

In this system, there are actually not many things that Luo Zhixue needs to personally participate in and handle.

And what does Luo Zhixue do on weekdays?

Evaluate the work of the ministers under him, balance the high-level politics within the empire, and appoint and dismiss the ministers under him.

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To put it bluntly, it is to manage people...

If Luo Zhixue wants to do something, he usually doesn't do it himself, but orders a minister to do it. If the minister is good, he will be rewarded. If he does not do well, he will be devalued and let him go.

Just like Chengshun's new round of bureaucratic storms that started in August 16, this round of bureaucratic storms is different from the past. In the past, the bureaucratic storms were generally limited to middle and high-level officials. The later stage is aimed at collusion between officials and businessmen.

But the pursuit is from top to bottom, to deter the officialdom by successively winning heavyweight senior officials.

With Chengshun’s 12-year high-level administration of officials almost done, Luo Zhixue decided to infiltrate the work of officials downwards and launch a comprehensive rectification of grassroots officials to completely reverse corruption and bribery in the officialdom. Officials do not take money and do nothing. The distorted atmosphere of taking money and doing nothing.

Luo Zhixue is not saying that after pursuing a storm of bureaucratic rectification, the whole atmosphere will be better, but at any rate, if the atmosphere in the imperial officialdom is to be calmed down for three to five years, the general officials, especially the grassroots officials, must know that corruption The price of corruption and bribery is very high, too high for you to bear.

How should I put it, to put it into practice, I want to tell the general officials, especially the grassroots officials: If you make money, you should make money, but you have to do something, and if you make money, don’t make it so blatantly, take it easy...

In short, the core meaning is only one: don't go too far, or you will copy your family and wipe out your family...

However, Luo Zhixue doesn't care about how to do it. The rectification of officials can't be done in a day or two. How can Luo Zhixue have so much time and thought to stare at it?
He directly handed over the relevant affairs to the Great Inspectorate Youdu Yushi and the co-organizing minister Wang Bingqi, and let him be fully responsible for the rectification of grassroots officials this time.

Today's morning meeting, the main thing is that Wang Bingqi will report on the preliminary deployment work of this grass-roots officials' rectification.

This also means that the Great Chu Empire is about to set off a new round of bureaucratic rectification, which is different from the past and involves a wider area, and may even affect tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of officials!

Luo Zhixue is looking forward to this, and Wang Bingqi is even more looking forward to it!

I want to be emperor