Chapter 909

Now, overall, the common people understand reason much better than before."

Qin Mu actually roughly knew that Bao Zheng was doing well.

How the world is will be reflected in the overall atmosphere.

As long as you go out on the street and look, you will have a rough idea of the overall effect of the implementation of the law.

Qin Mu just nodded slightly but did not interrupt.

Bao Zheng continued.

"I have realized that the law for the common people is both a shackle and a foundation. If the shackle is too tight, the people will not be able to breathe.

If the foundation is too low, the people will be unsteady under their feet, with nothing to rely on.

The balance here is the truly mysterious part.

Only a heaven-sent genius like Your Majesty can understand it in his heart.

I am willing to be Your Majesty's student and study the infinite mysteries of this law with all my heart!" Bao Zheng had always given people the feeling of being an impartial, cold, and tough person. However, in front of Qin Mu, this praise made people's jaws drop. For such praise, Qin Mu just smiled.

Changing the subject, he changed the topic.

"And how is the administration of officials?"

Speaking of the administration of officials, Bao Zheng's body bowed even deeper.

"The secret letter system created by Your Majesty is completely a magic weapon for clearing up the administration of officials! Your Majesty, since ancient times, corruption has been a problem that no emperor could do anything about. Even the wise monarchs in history could only manage to investigate big corruption and let go of small corruption.

This method is jokingly called 'raising pigs'.

Corrupt officials are like pigs; once they are raised fat, they are given a knife. The metaphor is vulgar but apt. Only Your Majesty's secret letter system can make big and small corrupt officials have nowhere to hide!" Qin Mu smiled.

If the secret letter system didn't work well, why would he specifically instruct to use this system to clear out corrupt officials?

Qin Mu stipulated that not only officials, but as long as they were Great Qin subjects, they all had the power to write secret letters to report.

No matter where, no matter at what level, as long as they discovered officials breaking the law or failing to act, they could all write secret letters to report.

All secret letters from all over were uniformly collected by the Embroidered Uniform Guard and sent to the capital by fast horse.

Except for the Embroidered Uniform Guard, no one was allowed to intervene!

Finally, the secret letters were summarized in the capital and handed over to Bao Zheng. He then arranged for people specifically to review the secret letters to screen them one by one.

In this way, as long as someone wrote a secret letter to report any official.

That official could only wait for the investigation and ruling of the Ministry of Justice.

Once the secret letter system is combined with the Embroidered Uniform Guard, any corrupt official will be helpless!

"People say 'Bao the Black' is a blue-sky official. You don't just have to say nice things; say something substantial."

Bao Zheng's old face turned red; fortunately, his face was black, so it couldn't be seen.

He, who loved flattering the least, couldn't help but say too many words of praise today.

Actually, it was completely from his heart; he was indeed impressed by the Emperor's various measures.

"Your Majesty, since the beginning of spring, in the past half year, a total of six hundred and forty-two big and small corrupt officials have been cleared out.

Among them, thirty-nine were beheaded. Two hundred and fifteen were exiled to Liaodong.

Most of the rest were pilloried in public for a month, removed from the official register, and never to be employed again.

Among these people, officials from the Western Regions accounted for more than half!"

The last sentence was the key point!

Qin Mu listened to Bao Zheng's report, the smile on his face faded, and he fell into deep thought.

Even if Great Qin's politics were clear, there were still so many corrupt officials.

Other places were easy to talk about; among the crowd, there were always dregs.

But most of the corrupt officials were concentrated in the Western Regions, which was not a good phenomenon.

It showed that there must be a problem in the Western Regions!

Because the Western Regions were too far away, Qin Mu had only been there once, when he rescued the thirty-six nations of the Western Regions.

Afterward, he never went again.

The Queen of Jingjue had also written several memorials to Chang'an, and at the end of the memorials, she kept asking Qin Mu when he would go to Jingjue City again? She missed him dearly!

These letters were also thrown aside by Qin Mu.

Just kidding!

With so many beauties in the inner palace, he was already too busy. Where would he have time to go to Jingjue City for a date?

The reason there were so many corrupt officials in the Western Regions was because of chaos.

It gathered the thirty-six nations of the Western Regions and Tuyuhun, plus the Hexi Corridor, and Tukhara and Persia.

All kinds of people gathered there.

The ones managing the Western Regions were the Three Yang Cabinet, whose handling of affairs was relatively mild.

Another important factor was the Manichaean religion.

"Yu Huatian!"

A black shadow suddenly appeared beside Bao Zheng and bowed to Qin Mu.

"Your servant is here!"

Bao Zheng was not surprised by Yu Huatian's appearance.

All ministers knew that beside the Emperor, there were two elusive experts.

But their combined skills were not as good as the Emperor's.

Qin Mu's face was somewhat cold.

"How is the matter of you eradicating the Manichaean religion going?"

"Answering Your Majesty, the Manichaeans have been basically eradicated. The remaining stray dogs are estimated to be a few hundred people, lurking among the common people, unable to be distinguished." This result was already considered very good.

The biggest problem now was that it was difficult to distinguish the Manichaeans.

But as long as they didn't relax and kept watching closely, they could let them lurk until they died out.

"That little Persian prince, I remember he was also a Manichaean. How is he?"

"Answering Your Majesty, the evidence is as solid as a mountain, beheaded in public!"

Oh.

The problem was found.

Qin Mu hadn't given instructions regarding the disposal of the little Persian prince at the time.

As a result, the Embroidered Uniform Guard killed him with one knife.

But after all, he was the bloodline left behind by the Persian royal family, and among the Persians, he still had quite a bit of prestige.

Killing him like this might have stirred up the Persian people's desire to rebel.

Of course, the Persians who wanted to rebel would only be a very small minority.

It was these black sheep that made the overall atmosphere of the Western Regions become somewhat turbid, thus producing many corrupt officials.

"Bao Zheng, do you understand the problem of the Western Regions?

Let the Embroidered Uniform Guard cooperate with you to properly rectify it!"

"Your servant obeys the decree!"

Bao Zheng roared, his voice shaking the roof tiles!