In Ancient Times, Divulging Official Secrets Was Called "Magpie Mouth".

< p > ancient name "a href=" http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp "> officialdom leaked" /a "is" magpie mouth ". This allusion stems from the officialdom leak incident in the Tang Dynasty. When Li Shi (Tang Dezong) became emperor, the prime minister Dou Shen Chang and his distant nephew Dou Shen were employed by personnel. Each time he negotiated the decision to appoint someone as an official, Dou Shen would immediately disclose "good deeds" to the parties so as to allow the parties to bribe him, when people gave him a nickname "magpie". Later Li Shi knew that he had not repented of his divulging secret, and finally he was sent to death. < /p >
< p > Dou Shen is guilty of "leakage of Chinese language". Like "divulge books" and "secret matters", since the Han Dynasty, it is a very serious crime in officialdom. In the Tang Dynasty, < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp > > confidentiality law < /a > has been quite complete, and the legal provisions are meticulous and detailed. The "Tang law" requires that public officials should be "confidential". They are especially strict in the management of officials of the imperial institutions in the middle schools, such as the Secretary of the middle school, the lower court, and so on. "The law of the Tang Dynasty" has made four injunctions against such public officials: "one leak, two said to be slow, three to be wrong, and four to forget". Otherwise, "those who leak events should be dense, and those who are not important should be a year and a half." < /p >
< p > < < a href= > http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp > > < /a > > for the first time clearly put forward the crime of espionage. If it acts as a spy or knowingly knows the spy's identity of the other party, it intentionally hangs, stays and concealment. < /p >
In the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty emphasized the confidentiality of official documents more than the Tang Dynasty. The punishment for the leaks was rather harsh. It also encouraged the masses to report the whistleblowers. For example, those who reported the concealment of the secret files would be rewarded 50 to 100. < /p >
< p > the wind of Daxing in Ming Dynasty has paid more attention to the secrecy work and has made great efforts. "The law of the Ming Dynasty", "the system of duty", stipulates: "if the officials of various yamen are colluded with each other, they will disclose things. All cut, wife and son flow two thousand li. < /p >
< p > in addition, there are specific penalties for the loss of important documents and confidential materials: "lost books, decree, seal, stick ninety, for two and a half years; if official documents, staff seventy; dry military aircraft, money and food, staff ninety, two and a half years. Stop payment. Duty search, thirty days to see, exonerate. " < /p >