I'm in the Red Mansion

After Xue Pan's wedding, Jia Cong set up an inspection office within the court department.

This Inspection Office is not under the jurisdiction of the three provinces and six ministries, but is only responsible to the emperor. Its purpose is to supervise all officials.

The Inspection Office seems to have overlapping functions with the Dali Temple, but in fact it does not.

The Dali Temple is equivalent to the Supreme People's Court in later generations. It is responsible for hearing cases but not for supervising officials.

One is passive, the other is active, and their powers are completely different.

The Inspection Office has more than just a headquarters in the capital.

And branches will be established in various places.

The Inspection Office is not only responsible for the management, supervision and review of officials, but also accepts complaints from the public.

As long as you feel wronged or encounter officials who abuse their power for personal gain or pervert the law, you can go to the Inspection Office to file a complaint.

The Inspection Commission has high power and authority. Similarly, if the Inspection Commission protects corrupt officials or fails to take action, the punishment will be extremely severe.

The sentence basically starts with the death penalty, and if the situation is serious, the family members will also be implicated.

The Inspection Court was probably a combination of the Discipline Inspection Commission and the Letters and Calls Office of later generations.

However, the Inspection Commission established by Jia Cong has greater power than the Discipline Inspection Commission.

After all, the Discipline Inspection Commission of later generations will still be under the jurisdiction of local governments.

The Inspection Court is only responsible to the superior department, and the chief executive of the Procuratorate is only responsible to the emperor.

Jia Cong not only gave the Inspection Office power, but also had a very strict punishment mechanism for them.

The officials of the Inspection Office were also under the supervision of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

The Inspection Office can also monitor the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

These two departments supervise each other.

Once power is unchecked, it will inevitably get out of control.

Jia Cong had no choice but to let the two departments supervise and check and balance each other.

As a result, these two departments will inevitably fall into a certain degree of internal friction in the future.

But there is nothing we can do about it.

There is no perfect system in this world.

Jia Cong could only cross the river by feeling the stones and constantly improve various systems.

The appointment of officials to the Inspection Court was initially based on the recommendation system.

Of course, recommendations are made among officials, and only those who are upright and resolute will be selected into the Inspection Court.

The establishment of the Inspection Office caused great turmoil in the entire Chinese officialdom.

The establishment of the Inspection Court is equivalent to hanging a sword over the heads of all officials.

However, the majesty of Jia Cong as the founding emperor prevented anyone from voicing any opposition.

The Inspection Office was established very quickly, after all, it only required the repair of a government office.

As for officials, they can be recommended directly from the local level; they are all ready-made.

Nowadays, the speed of communication of the post station has become much faster.

This order will spread throughout China within a month.

Jia Cong planned to hand over the land measurement case to the Inspection Office.

As for the evidence, the Jinyiwei have already collected it and only need to be handed over to the Inspection Office.

You can also take this opportunity to check the quality of the Inspection Office and see what their capabilities are.

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One day, Johann Adam Schall von Bell came to visit.

Upon hearing the news, Jia Cong asked someone to invite Johann Adam Schall ...

Johann Adam Schall von Bell, a man who never comes to the temple without a request.

This time he came to me probably because he had made some progress in his scientific research.

Soon, Johann Adam Schall ...

After seeing Jia Cong, Tang Ruowang said happily: "Congratulations, Your Majesty, congratulations, Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty is indeed wise and powerful, and a genius. Your Majesty's guidance is indeed correct."

"We have developed a generator set that can successfully generate electricity!"

Jia Cong didn't feel very excited after hearing this.

It was Jia Cong who asked Johann Adam Schall von Bell to study electricity.

In fact, Jia Cong could have asked him to study the crank-connecting rod mechanism first, develop the engine, and then go back to study electrical energy.

However, Jia Cong still wanted to make some changes.

For example, first research electricity and then expand the electricity industry throughout China.

Then, electricity will be vigorously promoted throughout China.

Will the application of electricity become more extensive?
Even in later generations, electricity is the main energy source? Other energy sources are used as supplementary energy sources?
Will it be possible to reduce the greenhouse effect in the future?
Jia Cong traveled through time from later times, and he knew some of the situations in later times.

Therefore, I also want to make some changes.

It was not until this time that Johann Adam Schall von Bell invented the engine, and Jia Cong still felt that they were developing too slowly.

However, in order to encourage Johann Adam Schall ...

Then he said, "By the way, how is your research on the lighting going?"

Tang Ruowang said: "Your Majesty, we are still in the process of research and development. I think we are close to success. I believe we will be able to bring good news to Your Majesty soon."

Jia Cong nodded and said, "You can try filling the light bulb with some nitrogen, and you can use tungsten as the filament material. I think you will succeed."

This has become a successful case in later generations. This time, Jia Cong was completely feeding the food into their mouths.

If they fail again, Jia Cong can only say that they are too stupid.

And Johann Adam Schall von Bell always regarded Jia Cong's advice as if it were divine.

Because at the beginning, Johann Adam Schall von Bell might not have been convinced.

But every time it was proved that the emperor was right, and for this reason, Johann Adam Schall von Bell naturally became more and more convinced.

Johann Adam Schall von Bell left in high spirits.

After the court session that day, Jia Cong went to Concubine Xue's place.

Jia Cong asked, "Sister Bao, how many steam engines does your Xue family business use?"

The Xue family's business is growing bigger and bigger.

Of course, the Xue family has now been divided into two.

Their first and second wives have been completely separated.

Firstly, it was to prevent any rift between the two families, and secondly, it was because the Xue family was now earning too much money.

There were so many that even Xue Baochai was terrified.

With the emperor and her around, the Xue family will naturally be protected.

But what if the emperor and she are gone?
What about the emperor in the future? Will he also slaughter the Xue family like pigs?
Now that Xue family’s business is under the care of Xue Baochai, it’s natural that she takes good care of it.

He also privately advised Aunt Xue and Xue Pan that the Xue family already had enough wealth, so what if there was a little more?

In the future, will the Xue family be liquidated because of their excessive wealth?
Xue Baochai's words made Aunt Xue and Xue Pan think of the eight major salt merchants in Jiangnan.

Wasn't it for this reason that the eight major salt merchants in Jiangnan were liquidated?
Of course, they also committed many evil and mischievous things.

However, even in the Xue family business, it is hard to say that the people below are all clean.

When a chamber of commerce grows to a certain size, its actions will naturally become more outrageous.

Thinking of this, Aunt Xue and Xue Pan also began to get scared.

Therefore, in the past one or two years, the scale of the Xue family's business has not only not expanded, but has also been reduced on its own initiative.

Their profits also decreased a little, but not too much.

After all, their family is the best among all the merchant families in the whole Chinese nation.

Their business is running smoothly without any obstruction. Who would be so blind as to dare to go against them?
Therefore, it was naturally very easy for them to make money.

Now the Xue family is still preparing to slowly reduce the scale of the Xue family business. However, the Xue family did not dare to neglect Jia Cong's instructions.

At the Xue family business, steam engines are used in many industries.

It also played a leading role in the promotion of steam engines.

For example, after the fall of the eight major salt merchants in Jiangnan.

The Xue family is located in Jiangnan and has acquired a large number of factories.

Then the steam engine and the improved textile machine were used to greatly improve the textile efficiency.

Because labor costs were greatly reduced, the Xue family's loom factory greatly reduced the cost of cloth.

Other textile factories in Jiangnan have been squeezed half to death by the Xue family.

Several have closed down.

The few families that had not closed also heard that the Xue family used steam engines and improved looms.

They followed suit, improving efficiency and reducing costs.

Only then did he barely survive.

The Xue family’s transportation was also replaced with steam cars.

Furthermore, all the post stations were equipped with steam cars.

And it is precisely because of the existence of steam cars that transportation efficiency has been greatly improved.

Xue Baochai knew the current situation of the Xue family business very well.

And she also knew why the emperor asked this question.

So she told the story in an orderly manner based on what she had learned.

After listening to this, Jia Cong kept nodding his head.

At present, the newly born China is secretly carrying out the industrial revolution.

However, this process is a little slow. Jia Cong estimates that it will take at least ten years.

It’s not that Jia Cong doesn’t want to advance this process as quickly as possible.

But the reality is that the specific situation still needs specific analysis.

For example, China’s current productivity may not be enough to speed up this process.

Today, the promotion of new crops in China has not yet been completed, and grain production may not be able to reach self-sufficiency.

You have to eat your food one bite at a time and walk one step at a time.

At least, under his control, China is on the right track.

Another thing that Jia Cong paid more attention to was the speed of promotion of new Chinese learning.

Generally speaking, the speed of promoting new knowledge is still very fast.

After all, the new learning has extremely obvious advantages compared to the old learning.

The first advantage is that new studies are easier to get started with than old studies.

Even if you only learn to write a few words or do accounting, it is good.

After studying for a few years, you can become an apprentice in an accountant, and after a few more years, you can become an accountant.

If you learn well, you can even enter the various departments under the Ministry of Works and become an official.

This is a real temptation.

For this reason, new learning is being carried out in full swing throughout China.

However, most of those who went to learn the new skills were children from ordinary people's families, or children of craftsmen, etc.

In short, they are all children of the lower class.

Gentry families would not send their children to learn new knowledge.

There were also a few scholars who were interested in the new learning and studied it out of curiosity.

But such people are, after all, a minority.

However, due to the lack of scholars studying psychology, the new learning was promoted quickly.

But there are not many clashes of ideas.

However, Jia Cong was not in a hurry about this. After all, he was planning to include the new studies in the imperial examinations later.

By then, everyone will be able to learn the new knowledge.

Naturally, there will be many studies and many schools of thought.

These things need to be advanced step by step and cannot be rushed.

This is actually somewhat different from his plan when he was in Yanyun.

After all, there are some things that you can only know if you experience them yourself.

Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish. Some things cannot be rushed. Once you are in a hurry, chaos will easily occur.

And then, China continued to develop in an orderly manner.

This year's new agricultural crops are being further promoted throughout China.

The weather in China is good now, so it will undoubtedly be a bumper year.

The establishment of the Inspection Office has greatly improved public security and administration in various parts of China.

Jia Cong, the founding emperor, is an emperor comparable to Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

He was ruthless when it came to killing corrupt officials, and some officials secretly nicknamed him the Beheading Emperor.

This title alone is enough to make corrupt officials tremble.

But in remote areas, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away.

The deterrent effect of imperial power is very weak.

Therefore, the more remote the area, the more bandits are rampant and the more corrupt the government is.

However, with the establishment of the Inspection Office, the administration of officials has become more clean even in remote areas.

The deterrent effect of the Inspection Office is real.

In some places, the inspection offices were established early, and the officials performed their duties conscientiously and took action early.

A number of officials have already been investigated and punished, and the files are being submitted to the authorities.

After reading the files, Jia Cong pointed out some discrepancies in procedures or insufficient evidence.

But overall they were praised and those officials who did their job were really rewarded.

These officials were like a catfish in the Inspection Office, which completely swirled the newly established Inspection Office.

It would be fine if everyone did nothing and just waited for death.

But once someone is actively doing something and starts to roll up, you have to follow suit.

If everyone opens the book together, the overall efficiency will immediately be improved qualitatively.

It doesn't matter that the Inspection Office opened the case, but corrupt officials throughout China will suffer.

Corrupt officials have been brought down in various places, some of whom were even involved in group cases.

The court also began to take this matter seriously.

Jia Cong attached particular importance to it.

Ever since the inspection office opened the case, Jia Cong didn't even dare to lie down any longer.

Even if he stayed up late at night with the lights on, he always kept an eye on the files of the procuratorates in various places.

In the early stages, rules must be established so that the Inspection Office can file a complaint.

But we must never file cases just for the sake of filing cases, or create false cases or wrongful convictions just for the sake of filing cases.

Such rules must be established at the beginning.

Soon, Jia Cong actually found several such officials.

For these cases, Jia Cong found many suspicious points just by looking at the files.

Jia Cong has full-level insight and battlefield command capabilities, so he naturally has the ability to find loopholes.

Even if you can handle a case perfectly, there will always be some traces left in the files. (End of this chapter)