Guide: Dogs are good at finding their own ways to escape. When they have a vacant room, they can go in. When they closed the door, they had no chance to escape. Yongzheng is a "master dog fighter". When he was in charge of corrupt officials, he beat the dog behind closed doors, let corrupt officials no way back settle accounts first, and finally let corrupt officials fall to their death. There is a famous saying in the Qing Dynasty: "Yongzheng has no official." . Kangxi, the father of Yongzheng, created a peaceful and prosperous time, but it also left serious sequelae: official corruption, insufficient tax revenue and empty treasury. When Yongzheng took over, the national treasury was only eight million and two thousand yuan, but the loss of air reimbursement was amazing. This made Yongzheng very worried. Yongzheng knew very well that his father created a prosperous time and the country could not do without money. All the money went to corrupt officials. So, how to control these corrupt officials?

Yongzheng has a characteristic. He is well aware of the habits and disadvantages of officialdom. He knows that there are three main ways for officials to participate in corruption: relying on superiors to cover up the truth, borrowing money to fill accounts, and reimbursing tips. To this end, he thought about the countermeasures against corrupt officials. After investigation and repeated thinking, he finally came up with a strategy to deal with corrupt officials. The first step was to crack down on corrupt officials. Yongzheng's countermeasure was to send an imperial envoy to clean up the empty salary. Yongzheng knows that if you don't send an imperial envoy and rely on corrupt officials to check your corruption, you will never find out; It is also impossible to rely on the boss of a corrupt official, because there is no corrupt official who does not curry favor with the boss and does not give him bribes and gifts. Even if his boss is honest, he is unreliable. Because the deficit in empty areas is so serious, corrupt officials are rampant and do nothing. There are only two situations: either a fatuous official or a mediocre official. These people can't stop the deficit from being empty. Only by sending an imperial envoy can we thoroughly understand the situation of corrupt officials. Imperial envoys are directly under the imperial court and have nothing to do with local governments. These people have no lessons and worries from the past. They are directly under the leadership of the emperor and will do their best. In addition, they also want to add points to their work by checking corrupt officials.

In the concrete implementation, Yongzheng also thought of an amazing way. He asked these imperial envoys to take a group of alternate officials to investigate, find out a corrupt official, immediately dismiss him, and choose an official at the same level from the investigation team to take over. This is a wonderful move, but it is also a difficult one. Because Yongzheng knew that protecting officials was a stubborn disease in officialdom. Successive officials always fill the loopholes for their predecessors and then leave huge losses for their successors to make up. One reason is that the losses of the empty government are always irreparable. But this time is different. Later, when the on-the-job people came to audit the accounts, naturally they would not beat around the bush or cover for him. In this way, corrupt officials will have nowhere to escape and can only plead guilty and accept punishment. In view of the second measure, Yongzheng ordered the confiscation of all borrowed grain. The second way for corrupt officials to deal with inspections is to borrow money to eat food and fill empty accounts. When it comes to auditing, we borrow some money from the local rich and put it into the state treasury. At first glance, the people above are penniless. The money was returned as soon as the inspector left. Because it is borrowed by officials, not only the interest is high, but also I am afraid that it will not be paid. Besides, the rich don't want to offend local officials, so this method is often used by corrupt officials.

The tricks of these corrupt officials cannot escape Yongzheng's eyes. Yongzheng sent an imperial envoy, but he also gave orders to this place. No one can lend money to the government. Borrowing money is no problem. The money belongs to the government and the country. Don't take it back. Goyle, who refused to borrow money, lent food to corrupt officials. Yongzheng set up a "review office" for tip reimbursement when he moved the capital for the third time. The National Examination Bureau is an independent audit institution, which was established on the 14th day of the first month of Yong's first year.

In this way, department leaders will not be corrupt. Since department leaders can't be greedy, local officials can't spend a little money to get rid of the losses in the air. The three ways for corrupt officials to cope with the inspection were blocked by Yongzheng and had to confess. After blocking the retreat of all corrupt officials. Yongzheng began to "close the door and beat the dog". There are three ways to fight: one is to dismiss the official, the other is to claim compensation, and the third is to ask for property.

The purpose of dismissal is the so-called "leaving the post to make up for the loss", that is, after finding out the air loss, the official is ordered to make up for the loss within a time limit. But which corrupt official would dig meat from himself to make up for the empty loss? Must be stepping up the exploitation of the people. As the saying goes, "If you don't take it from the people, where do you come from?" As a result, the national treasury was enriched, but the people suffered greatly. Yongzheng needs not only the wealth of the country, but also the power of the people to reform. So his countermeasure is to dismiss the official first and then ask for compensation. Of course, the dismissed officials can no longer arrest people. They can only make up for the loss with their own money. This statement is clear. Kill people, borrow money, and lose money. Is there any reason not to pay it? Even pay royalties. Yongzheng's twelve younger brothers, Lu Xian County King, have been in charge of the Office of the Interior. He traced the air damage without paying, so he had to sell household appliances on the street. Yongzheng also stipulated that it is strictly forbidden for anyone to pay or compensate. In the past, it was often subordinates and people who paid debts. Courts often don't care where the money comes from, as long as it can be recovered. However, Yongzheng disagreed. He said that even if the lower-level state and county officials have more money, they can only use it to benefit the local people. How can they return stolen things to corrupt officials?

So some officials have no money. In this regard, Yongzheng's approach is to buy real estate. In August of the first year of Yongzheng, officials were ordered to investigate the yamen as soon as the air damage was discovered, and officials in the hometown of corrupt officials were asked to seal up the property in their hometown, and the family members supervised the recovery of the sold property to prevent the possibility of the transfer and hiding of the stolen money. Once the crimes of corrupt officials are proved, they will copy their property and even the homes of their relatives and children. Yongzheng ordered: "You can't look at it, you must investigate it. This is in line with the original intention of chasing greed to death and making children and grandchildren poor. " As a result, the voice of robbing the rich to help the poor appeared all over the country, and Yongzheng was named "robbing the rich emperor", and even a new way of playing appeared: robbing the rich to help the poor. Corrupt officials really have only one "dead end" when they meet such an emperor.

Unfortunately, in the Yongzheng era, they didn't even have a "dead end". Yongzheng's policy is: don't let him go after death! In the fourth year of Yongzheng, Li Bin, a Taoist priest in Guangdong, and Fan Tao, a Taoist priest in Fujian, committed suicide because they were investigated for corruption and bribery. Yongzheng ordered reconciliation with his children and family. Yongzheng said: "These people know that their crimes are extremely difficult to protect themselves. They want to deprive themselves of their lives and use death to preserve their property for future generations to enjoy. This is absolutely impossible. " This series of policies of Yongzheng dealt a heavy blow to corrupt officials. In just five years, the national treasury of the Qing Dynasty increased from 8 million to 50 million in the last years of Kangxi. More importantly, the social atmosphere has changed and imperial bureaucracy is clearly visible. Later generations commented that "there was no official in Yongzheng", which shows the wind of honest officials in Yongzheng Dynasty. More importantly, Yongzheng consolidated his rule in this way. If he cleaned up the court dissidents in order to rectify the external environment, then his governance of corrupt officials is to rectify the internal environment.