Everyone knows that in the history of the mainland, corrupt officials have appeared in all dynasties and dynasties. Because the ancient regulatory authorities were not perfect, there would be many people who used their rights to hide their property privately, and officials seized them layer by layer, and in the end, very few fell into the hands of the people, and sometimes there were none.
For example, during the Qing Dynasty, he embezzled family property can be said to be rich and enemy of the country, but such a big thing the emperor can not know, but just turn a blind eye, from another point of view, he can also be regarded as accumulating wealth for the country, rather than curbing it early, it is better to be a person who pretends to sleep.
In fact, as early as the Qin Dynasty, the DPRK set up a special department called the Discipline Inspection Commission, and later the emperor, in order to show the power of this department to a greater extent, he named the officials as imperial historians, which was specially used to investigate the corruption of various officials. And for the first time, the standard of punishment for official corruption was specified, and as soon as this policy was issued, the entire court minister was frightened into a cold sweat.
Later, over time, in the early Han Dynasty, corruption and bribery were carefully divided into several categories, and laws were also drawn up as constraints. In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang personally participated in the punishment of corrupt officials, improved the legal system at that time, and severely punished those who embezzled and accepted bribes. And it is clearly stipulated that if the amount of embezzlement by officials exceeds 10 taels, they will face the disaster of imprisonment.
If the amount is more than 60 taels, it is either sent to the frontier or directly beheaded, according to historical records, during his reign alone, during the Hongwu period, he killed nearly 150,000 corrupt officials. But what makes people wonder is that under this system, corrupt officials are still batch after batch, and they cannot be killed at all.
Later, in the Qing Dynasty, under the administration of Yongzheng, the corrupt officials gradually decreased, and laid a solid foundation for kangqian later. Everyone will wonder what kind of method he used to scare away corrupt officials. In fact, he summed up the experience of the emperors in controlling greed, not only to severely punish the greedy one, but also to raid the family and sit together.
The meaning of sitting together is to first arrest him and torture him, force him to find out the whereabouts of the embezzled property, and then cut him all over the door. He believes that corruption is certainly not something that a single person can do, there must be a gang, and since there is a gang, neither the children nor the wife can escape.
Even if the family didn't know anything, it wouldn't work, and at that time, as long as it was greedy, it was a crime. Therefore, at that time, many people had a fate to covet and not to spend, and even their families and children did not have a blessed life. In order to make the officials who arrested corrupt officials fulfill their duties, Yongzheng also greatly increased the salaries of these officials, so that they could do their best to serve the imperial court.