"Prince, the second point is that the officials have no passion to do things. They are already desperate about their future, so they have no passion to do things. Therefore, they all want to seek benefits for themselves and to gain benefits for their descendants when they get older." Jing Wen said.

Li Shimin and the officials frowned, obviously they didn't know why the officials still had this idea.

"Emperor, after research, most of these corrupt officials are officials in their forties, and they are probably middle-level officials. Although they are barely considered founding heroes, their contributions are obviously not as good as you. You all have titles and can be hereditary from generation to generation. You can even rely on your identities to enter the career of your descendants through legal family traditions, without worrying about the future of your descendants. However, those middle-level officials do not have titles and do not have the right to provide family traditions for their descendants. Once they grow old, after retirement, they will at most receive some so-called pensions to prevent their lives from being affected. However, their descendants cannot get any benefits, so they hope to make money when they are in power, and even have a good financial foundation for their descendants after retirement." Jing Wen said.

After hearing this statement, everyone agreed. Those officials actually had this idea because their future was not good. In the officialdom, not only descendants were the ones who were young, but also the ones in ancient times were also young. Even when they were older, it was not easy to promote them. Moreover, those officials, as founding heroes, were not as good as those founding heroes, which made them unable to get promotion. For example, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, if they were normal, they were all in their forties and were still very young and could serve the emperor for many years.

There are young ministers who are closer to the emperor, how can they be promoted? Even if more than ten or twenty years later, those old ministers who are closer to the emperor are older, they will not be promoted because they are older. At that time, the emperor will be more inclined to use the young people. Therefore, their future has been cut off, and when they cannot obtain higher official positions or even titles, they will want to make profits for themselves.

Moreover, they were all in their forties. In this ancient times, when they were in their thirties, they could call themselves my husband. I'm afraid that when they were in their forties, their grandsons came out. However, their position may not be enough, and their descendants could not enter the official career through their own family. This caused them to consider the living conditions of their descendants. This is the so-called right to be exempted, expired and invalidated, which is very similar to a phenomenon called Fifty-Nine in later generations.

"There is indeed no solution to this." Li Shimin also said, because Li Shimin could not give all the high-level privileges to middle and lower-level officials. This is obviously unrealistic!

"Okay, let's not talk about the reasons for corruption. Who can tell me how to manage corruption and how to curb corruption?" Li Shimin asked.

"Your Majesty, I have some insights. Please allow me to say a few words." Jing Wen said.

"speak!"

"Your Majesty, the reason why these officials are corrupt is actually because there is no supervision. Supervisors are too far away, supervision at the same level is too soft, and supervision at the lower level is too difficult. In this case, there is no supervision, corruption will naturally occur. If we want to control corruption, we must first work on supervision." Jing Wen said first.

"Oh? How to work hard on supervision?" Li Shimin continued to ask.

Jing Wen immediately said: "I think the number of censors in the Censorate can be expanded."

"How can the official positions in the court be increased at will? As the Minister of Personnel, of course it is impossible!" Du Ruhui said first.

However, Jing Wen immediately said: "Mr. Du Ruhui, I don't want to increase my official positions, but increase the number of supervisors. My Tang Dynasty currently has an imperial examination system, and dozens of officials have to be hired from the imperial examination every year. And these dozens of officials can choose some young people and later grant them official positions, so that they can serve as an intern censor at the Censorate. Because young people have not experienced too many human feelings, they are very disgusted with the ugly phenomena in the officialdom. If they are given the position of a censor, they may fight against the ugly phenomena in the officialdom. And, granting the power to directly report the emperor, can have a deterrent effect on those corrupt officials."

"Okay! The superiors at the lower level are supervising, this method is good. I, the Minister of Personnel, didn't even think of this method, but it actually made you think of it." Du Ruhui clapped his hands and said.

In fact, Jing Wen has changed his mind. The original system was supervised by high officials. But now Jing Wen does this, and that is supervised by small officials. This can be said to be a progress. Jing Wen learned this from the Ming Dynasty. He read the novels of the Ming Dynasty. The emperors of the Ming Dynasty liked to be young for the censors, because young people have no qualifications and prestige in the officialdom. They urgently need to establish their prestige, so they naturally complain like mad dogs everywhere. As long as there is some turmoil, they will report to the emperor. This will allow those officials to be more at ease and not be corrupt.

"The second article is actually to adopt the method of government affairs disclosure. We might as well let the major yamen organize the internal affairs of the last month, such as what costs and what public funds are used in the place, and then announce them within their own yamen. This is the so-called government affairs disclosure, so that people within the yamen can supervise each other." Jing Wen said.

Jing Wen actually wanted to make it public to the people, but the reality does not allow it. In this era, it is not yet advanced to be able to make it public to the people's government affairs, so it is naturally not possible. However, as long as it is disclosed to people in the same yamen, it is advanced enough to allow people in the same yamen to supervise each other.

"Governmental affairs disclosure? This is good! All officials in the same yamen can supervise each other, and it is not easy to commit fraud. It is a very good method." Wei Zheng also said.

"Is there any more next?" Li Shimin continued.
Chapter completed!