Chapter 897 Industrialized Anti-Corruption

For the immortal officials in heaven who were accustomed to the slow pace of administrative efficiency, this was like a small knife pulling their buttocks and opening their eyes.

Wen Zhong and Wen Rui hit it off immediately and finalized their intention to cooperate on the spot. For these two, both were capable officials whose names would go down in history, and becoming a general or a prime minister was just a basic job for them.

This father and son can kill gods in the sky and behead Yama in the earth. They are super strong men who are rare in the history of Chinese civilization for five thousand years.

Wen Rui immediately transformed the Lingxiao Palace into an automated assembly line for interrogating corrupt officials, dividing the Lingxiao Palace into two interrogation areas.

Wen Zhong stood in front of the "feeding port" and made a preliminary judgment of loyalty and treachery with just one glance. He then separated the gods who had passed the initial inspection into two interrogation areas with completely different treatments.

The area where the gods who were initially judged to be "loyal and kind" were diverted to was more like a witness stand than an interrogation room. They were interrogated by a polygraph robot developed by Wen Rui. The focus of the interrogation was to let them provide clues and identify and report those colleagues who were suspected of corruption.

The gods who were initially judged to be "evil" were in a miserable state. They entered another strict inspection area and were immediately locked up in a small dark room that was soundproof and shielded from divine consciousness. Waiting for them were not only lie detector robots, but also experienced economic investigation police officers from Wen Rui's personal secret refuge, who were affiliated with the Internal Affairs Department of the Demon Alliance.

At the same time, Wen Rui also released a large number of immortal-level Ultron robots specially equipped with quantum supercomputing chips, and immediately set off to the official residences of the eight departments of the Heavenly Court, entered the account library, and conducted a comprehensive audit of the account books related to the suspected immortal officials.

When checking accounts, these robots only need one scan to digitize the mountains of jade slips and enter them into the system. They can then call upon the supercomputing power of the cloud to process the data with enhanced learning of the auditing AI to identify any suspicious points.

Each audit robot is also equipped with two Leifu Lei soldiers. The Lei soldiers are not responsible for clerical work, but are only responsible for taking compulsory measures against the persons involved in the investigation during the investigation.

If a corrupt official in a high position wants to put fairy jade into his own pocket, he must have the cooperation of the subordinate fairy officials. Those detained in the Lingxiao Palace are all fairy officials of higher ranks. There are also many fairy officials who are not qualified to attend court but are deeply related to corruption cases and need to be investigated one by one to collect evidence.

If any officials are found to be guilty of the same crime, they will be arrested on the spot by the Lei soldiers of the Lei Mansion and taken to the Leicheng prison for detention.

The Lei soldiers of the Lei Mansion don't know how to investigate cases. They only need to follow the orders of the immortal-level Ultron robots and capture whoever they are told to capture. The rest will be left to the artificial intelligence with extremely meticulous logical thinking.

The thunder soldiers were unable to deal with the Heavenly Lord and the Star Lord, but they were able to easily deal with the immortal officials from various departments. The righteous gods and high-ranking officials of a certain level from various departments were detained in the Lingxiao Palace. Only a group of civil servants with low cultivation were left. The audit team sent by the Wen father and son was like a tiger among a flock of sheep. They ran rampant in the official residences of the eight departments and no one could stop them.

The auditing of the eight official residences, the interrogation of minor clerks to collect testimonies, and the on-site inspection of the reconciliation work of the Immortal Treasury were all carried out simultaneously with the separate interrogations in the Lingxiao Palace. The information exchange efficiency was extremely high. Some of the immortal officials who resisted stubbornly did not have long before new evidence and testimony were sent to the interrogation room, which constantly impacted their psychological defenses.

One immortal official after another became the breakthrough point, their psychological defenses collapsed, and they confessed all the facts of the crime. The prisoner's dilemma would cause great psychological pressure on other immortal officials in the isolation interrogation room.

On the wall of each interrogation room, there are openly posted rules for mitigating guilt, such as voluntary surrender, returning stolen goods, and giving out accomplices. Especially in the rule of giving out accomplices, as long as you give out the other party before your accomplice, the other party's share of mitigation will be transferred to you. Even if the time between the two people giving out the other party is only one second apart, the final conviction may be the difference between immediate execution and three years in prison.

The isolated interrogation rooms are strictly guarded against collusion, and it is impossible to transmit or receive information. However, every once in a while, the public broadcast will announce that a certain immortal official has had his sentence reduced by several levels due to his meritorious reporting. At the same time, it will also be announced that a certain immortal official who was reported by him has lost his eligibility for a reduction in sentence, and was ultimately sentenced to a very severe felony.

When Wen Zhong sealed off Lingxiao, there were more than a thousand immortal officials in the palace. It would take a month to catch the corrupt officials and verify their crimes. Even if Wen Zhong had the divine eye between his eyebrows, he might not be able to do it in time.

The old man worked around the clock and could not interrogate everyone one by one. If there were still some stubborn people who refused to confess, no result would be obtained even by torture.

The one-month deadline set by the Jade Emperor was meant to set a trap for Wen Zhong. Even if a deadline was set, it should not have been announced publicly. This was clearly instigating corrupt officials to grit their teeth and hold on. As long as they could survive this month, Wen Zhong would lose the power to continue the investigation, and they would be able to land safely and escape disaster.

However, with Wen Rui's intervention, this almost impossible task was suddenly reduced from the difficulty of hell to the difficulty of kindergarten. On the first day, hundreds of immortal officials took the initiative to confess their problems, and as they blamed each other, they dug out suspicious evidence of hundreds of immortal officials.

The clauses of returning stolen goods and reducing sentences, and giving out accomplices to reduce sentences are like the three-sided siege and the missing one. At least the immortal officials will not be killed if they confess the problem, but will have a chance to survive if they do not confess. The isolation interrogation creates a prisoner's dilemma, which is the finishing touch and can easily break down the psychological defenses of the guilty officials.

Of course, the prerequisite for achieving all this is the efficient audit team sent by Wen Rui. In less than a day, they can make tens of thousands of years of bad debts clear and transparent for you, thus eliminating the last bit of luck of the guilty officials.

There is no impenetrable wall in the world. Even if a fairy is corrupt, he needs his subordinates to cooperate with him, and it is impossible to be perfect.

No matter how hard you talk, the evidence is right in your face. You don't have to admit it. As long as the chain of evidence is complete, you can be convicted even without a confession. It is better for you to confess to betraying your friend. It is more beneficial for me if my friend dies rather than you.

As the saying goes, the older you are in the world, the less courageous you are. The gods are all smart people who have lived for thousands of years. They have much more experience in calculating gains and losses, protecting their lives, avoiding disasters and surviving than ordinary people.

This can also be considered a kind of survivor bias. Almost all the stubborn immortals are dead. Those who can survive to the present, except for those extremely powerful ones, are all experts in survival in the wilderness. Knowing the times and knowing when to admit defeat are basic survival skills.

At the last stage of the interrogation assembly line, the immortal official who had confessed and been convicted collapsed all over and was dragged out by the immortal-level Ultron robot like a dead dog and was dragged to the side of the golden treasure chest.

At some point, huge plaques had been erected on both sides of the treasure chest, listing in great detail the terms for reducing sins by donating fairy jades, how many levels of sins could be reduced by donating fairy jades, how many fairy jades could be converted into what grade of magic weapon, and every item was detailed and rich.

Not only that, there is also an Ultron robot donation financial manager on the side, who patiently explains the terms to those criminals who don't quite understand the clauses, and even tailors a sentence reduction package that best suits him. After an actuarial analysis of his entire assets, the manager helps him reduce his guilt to the greatest extent possible through the most affordable donation method.

(End of this chapter)

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