Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 605 Fighting Tigers
The autumn wind was cool, and Chang'an City was quiet for another two days.

During these two days, neither Qin Tian nor Li Shimin nor Wei Zheng mentioned anything about attacking the temple.

It gives the illusion that the court suddenly gave up on this matter.

And just two days later, the guards sent by Li Shimin in the imperial study room finally got news.

The guard didn't say much, but wrote the results of the investigation on a piece of paper and handed it to Li Shimin.

After Li Shimin opened the paper and looked at it, his brows froze immediately.

Because, on this piece of paper, all the officials involved and the situation of the Great Buddha Temple are written.

In addition, some officials even deposited their land under the name of the Great Buddha Temple to avoid taxation.

There was a lot of densely written on a large piece of paper. After reading it, Li Shimin was so angry that he was about to vomit blood.

It is only ten years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, and such serious corruption has already occurred, which is really astonishing.

Generally speaking, corruption occurs in every dynasty, and it has been banned repeatedly. But in the early days of the founding of the country, this kind of situation will be much less, and it will not be too obvious. In the later period, it will be difficult to control.

It is really frightening and outrageous that something like this happened in Datang today.

Li Shimin threw the piece of paper on the table and walked back and forth. Although this is only a small area, if it is not curbed, the situation will become more and more serious, and even affect the development of the entire Tang Dynasty in the end.

It's just that this matter has to be done, but how to do it and how to do it make Li Shimin a little embarrassed.

Corruption cannot be banned, and there are a lot of people involved in it.

"Come on, call Qin Tian here."

The imperial study room is already cool, but it has not reached the point of using the heated kang. Even this year, Li Shimin may wait until he is really unable to survive before using the heated kang.

The imperial court, it is difficult now.

After Qin Tian came, he already felt the chill, and couldn't help shrinking his neck.

"Your Majesty, I asked my ministers to come, but what's the matter?"

Li Shimin handed the paper to Qin Tian: "Look for yourself."

Qin Tian picked up the piece of paper and glanced at it roughly, but didn't look at it too carefully. After such a glance, Qin Tian frowned slightly, and said, "How does the Holy One plan to deal with this matter?"

Li Shimin said: "I asked you to come here to see if you can do anything. This is not easy to do. There are too many people involved. If they are all moved, the court will find so many officials to fill the vacancies at once. It will be very bad if the various tasks of Datang cannot be carried out in time, but if there is no punishment, this matter will become more and more unstoppable, and it will be detrimental to my future development of Datang."

Li Shimin saw the matter very clearly. After Qin Tian heard Li Shimin's words, he secretly sighed in his heart. Throughout the ages, this kind of matter has not been easy to solve.

Looking at the entire Chinese emperors, there is basically no one who can completely solve this matter, and there is a slightly better one, that is, Emperor Song Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty. But the reason why he was able to solve this problem was that he spent a lot of money, high salary Keep honest.

Give officials huge salaries, give them various benefits, let them survive as officials, so who would take the risk of corruption?
However, doing so would bring enormous pressure to the imperial court in the later stage, and once the officials indulged in enjoyment and could not extricate themselves, the generous salaries given by the imperial court might not be enough.

Money is never enough.

Moreover, this method does not apply to the Tang Dynasty at this time. Song Zhenzong was the third emperor of the Song Dynasty. At that time, the Song Dynasty was already extremely rich. In times of difficulty, it is already very good to be able to pay officials salaries on time, let alone increase salaries.

If you can’t raise a high salary, you still have the means to fight tigers with iron blood. The most famous one is Zhu Yuanzhang. He killed corrupt officials without even blowing his eyes.

It doesn't matter if you have dozens of people, hundreds of people, even thousands of people, kill as soon as you need to. If there are no officials, I will look for them again. Anyway, there must be no corrupt officials.

If you dare to be greedy, I will kill you.

Such iron blood is rare in the entire history of China. Unfortunately, the effect is not great. The corruption problem in the Ming Dynasty has always been serious.

The Song and Ming dynasties were two extremes in terms of salary, but unfortunately neither of them could completely solve the problem.

It is impossible for Datang to completely solve this problem. As long as there is still selfishness in human nature, this problem will never be solved.

"Your Majesty, this matter is indeed difficult to resolve, but it is not impossible to curb the further spread of this matter."

Hearing that Qin Tian had a solution, Li Shimin was a little happy, and said, "Oh, what can you do?"

"Two methods. The first is to punish corrupt officials. This punishment does not need to be excessive. It is enough to make them lose face. Let them know that as long as they are greedy for ink, they will be ashamed in the future. The second is to punish corrupt officials. Those who give bribes, as long as they take the initiative to bribe, will be severely punished, and their heads will be beheaded directly, so if they kill the briber, who else dares to bribe?"

From Qin Tian's point of view, there are two reasons for the endless corruption of ink. One is that the officials themselves are relatively greedy, so they find opportunities to get people to bribe him. Such officials can be severely punished. The second reason is that some bribers have The matter requires the help of officials, so they take the initiative to bribe. In this case, the officials can be punished lightly to make them ashamed, but for those who take the initiative to bribe, they must be made an example. In this way, those who want to bribe others will naturally be curbed.

For a long time, the punishment for this kind of thing has been too light, and the cost of bribery is too low. Naturally, some people dare to take risks. If they are asked to pay their lives, who would dare to take the initiative to bribe?
If officials ask for bribes, they will be severely punished, so officials will not dare to ask for bribes.

If you control these two points, many things will be easily solved.

Qin Tian shared his thoughts with Li Shimin. After listening to Li Shimin, he felt that such a method was very special, and he had never seen it before. Moreover, these two methods were based on human nature, so that they were too afraid to offer bribes. Or ask for a bribe.

"Qin Aiqing's method is not bad. It may work, but it just makes the officials feel ashamed and embarrassing. This is a bit embarrassing for me. If I don't kill their heads or demote their official positions, how can I let them lose face?"

As the son of heaven, imagination is sometimes limited, so Li Shimin really can't think of some crooked ways and evil ways. Qin Tian thought for a while and said: "My lord, it's better like this..."

Qin Tian muttered to Li Shimin once. After listening to it, Li Shimin's expression changed slightly, and he said, "Dashan, it's interesting, that's it..."

(End of this chapter)