Picked up a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 319
After Cai Yong rushed to the south, he dispatched a large number of accompanying officials from Jingzhou to the surroundings to investigate the people's conditions. Afterwards, he arrested dozens of officials, big and small, and many prefects in Jingzhou were arrested by Cai Yong. Yong called to curse, and later, in Jiaozhou and Yangzhou, the same situation happened. Cai Yong even refused to go to Xing Ziang's house, and said directly: "Xing Ziang insulted He Gongmen."

When the words came out, Xing Ziang almost committed suicide to apologize, but the surrounding officials immediately stopped him.

In March, Cai Yong had just finished his tour of most of the south, and arrested a total of 83 officials, 60 powerful, and 16 merchants. The mighty team led these criminals and rushed towards Luoyang. After Cai Yong finished these things, the frequent civil uprisings in the south came to an abrupt end. The common people cheered for Cai Yong, and Cai Yong's reputation surpassed that of Zheng Xuan, and he was praised as the number one Confucianist in the dynasty.

In May, Cai Yong returned to Luoyang.

The emperor frowned, with a gloomy face, and asked a little irritably, "Why didn't you kill them directly? And bring them back to Luoyang?"

Cai Yong said helplessly: "Your Majesty, I do not have the power of life and death, so I would like to submit it to the court officer for review."

The Son of Heaven nodded, looked at Song Dian, and shouted angrily: "Catch Wang Fu, let the embroidered clothes messenger do it, and take him directly to the palace!" Cai Yong was stunned, and said quickly: "Your Majesty, if Wang Fuchao Zhong Gongqing is like this, it will lose the face of the temple and you must not do anything."

"Hoo, bring him to the palace."

Song Dian led the order to go out, not long after, Wang Fu rushed to the main hall impatiently, saw Cai Yong sitting in the palace, Wang Fu was a little shocked, and after paying homage to the emperor, he also sat down, Cai Yong Yong hurriedly returned to Luoyang privately. Wang Fu didn't know that he had returned, so he was a little surprised. The emperor looked at Wang Fu and said, "My lord, didn't you always say that the officials selected by Ke Gong will definitely be able to do so?" Is it for the great use of the country?"

"Your Majesty, the minister's words, is it wrong?"

"Take it and see for yourself!!!" the emperor roared, and threw the memorial in his hand onto Wang Fu's body. After reading the memorial, he looked slowly, the more he looked down, the more dignified his face became, after watching for a while, he raised his head in astonishment, looked at Cai Yong, and asked: "Is this true?? "

The content of the memorial shocked Wang Fu.

These are all the crimes of the officials who were arrested, many of which were confessed by them. These officials are probably selected by the Kegong system. These officials, as Wang Fu said, are indeed It is the officials who are willing to work hard for the country. They don't think what those officials think, accept bribes, or favor the powerful. However, they all have major crimes.

"In the 14th year of Jianning, in the winter, Wang Xi, the magistrate of Jiangling County, forced the people in the county to build roads and mobilized 700 people. Half of them were frostbitten and 11 died of exhaustion."

"In January 15, He Yun, the prime minister of Changsha County, forced the boatman to build a ship. Six ships were built. In order to catch up with the work, the construction was incomplete, and more than [-] people drowned."

"In December of 14, Wei Luyu of Chaisang County led people to kill 40 innocent villagers, falsely calling them thieves, and presenting their heads for credit."

This memorial is full of the blood of innocent people everywhere. Ever since Wang Fu proposed that officials should be promoted strictly based on their achievements each year, these officials have tried their best to oppress the people and seek for themselves in order to get better promotions. Political achievements, not hesitating to be persecuted to death, exhausted to death, and corvee to exhaust the people to death, this is something that only appeared during the Tyranny of the Qin Dynasty. After the founding of the country, the big man learned a lesson.

Officials rarely took the initiative to carry out various measures. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, they made the people self-cultivated and governed by doing nothing. Although this kind of thinking was broken later, this style of work continued until later. To persuade Nongsang and arrest thieves, only a few capable ministers will carry out various reform measures such as building canals and building official roads in order to realize their inner ambitions.

However, they will not kill barbarians to lie about their political achievements in order to catch thieves, nor will they force the people to die of exhaustion for their political achievements. These add up to hundreds of lives. In addition, these dead people, all They were classified as accidents, drowning, or illness. No one reported to the court the real cause of their deaths. The prefects everywhere knew such things, but these counties have achieved political achievements, and they can also be promoted!
They just sit back and watch, and the county also thinks so about the actions of officials in the pavilion and the countryside to harm the people.

Collusion from top to bottom, harming the people together, no wonder, no wonder so many people gathered together to kill officials and create chaos.

The Son of Heaven picked up the memorial, his hands were still trembling, his eyes were red with tears, "Wang Jiexin, I wanted to personally inspect the south this year. But now, I dare not, how can I face it?" For those common people, my fault has killed thousands of common people. How can the common people be blamed? Tell me, how are you different from those beasts who killed the common people? Thousands of lives have been killed, and I dare not take this A melody!!!”

"Are you trying to kill me? Before you formulate policies, why don't you want to know? How do you let me face the people of the three states, and how to sleep at night?!"

The Son of Heaven pointed at the Wang Talisman and roared angrily, tears streaming down his face.

"Your Majesty, I'm wrong." Wang Fu said, instantly, as if he had aged for decades, he lowered his head a little decadently, and clasped his hands tightly. I, Wang Jiexin, have always disobeyed anyone. My talent is invincible in the world. My everything Everything I do is for the common people of the Han Dynasty, but I have misunderstood people's hearts. Is promotion and official career really so important?Wang Fu was a little dazed, staring blankly at the memorial in the emperor's hand.

The Son of Heaven painfully put down the memorial in his hand. Just this year, he was still blatantly speaking at the court meeting, telling all the officials that the prosperous age has come, and he still wants to learn from Emperor Xiaowu and practice Zen. The emperor slapped loudly, the emperor turned his head, looked at Cai Yong, and said: "These officials, don't kill them, and don't send them to Ting Wei, send them to Zhang He, let Zhang He find out their accomplices!"

"As ordered."

The emperor's chest heaved violently, he stared at the Wang Fu in front of him, and asked, "How should we proceed?"

"I don't know"

"Come on!!"

"Remove this guy from office and hand it over to Tingwei for review!"

When Su Wei came, Wang Fu got up slowly, bowed heavily to the emperor, and then walked out together with Su Wei. The emperor's face was red, and he watched Wang Fu leave, trembling, and picked up the memorial again. Seeing the appearance of the emperor, Cai Yong persuaded; "Your Majesty, the fault is not your Majesty's, and the king didn't do it on purpose, Your Majesty, please don't do this."

"Thief, thief, you have owed the emperor!!!"

The Son of Heaven roared angrily, with blood overflowing from the corner of his mouth, and fell backwards.

"His Majesty!!!"

(End of this chapter)