People in the Three Kingdoms: Starting from Preaching

Chapter 630 The Final Work
It took nearly half a year from the time Tian Shitou personally went to Qingzhou to arrest Guan Hai and start the trial until all the facts of the case were clarified. Among them, there were hundreds of cases directly or indirectly related to Guan Hai. The Qingzhou faction was a huge interest group composed of businessmen and officials, with thousands of people. Under this huge network of interests, there was no place in Qingzhou that was not affected.

After a long period of review and reckoning, countless unjust, false and wrong cases were finally corrected, and many persecuted people were able to have their injustices vindicated.

After the case was settled, the entire Qingzhou official system, almost from top to bottom, was purged. The court's efforts to rectify the situation were resolute and harsh. Only in this way could Qingzhou be completely cleared up.

Once this case was announced, it immediately caused a shock throughout the court and the country. Even though many people already knew about this during the investigation, the final result still shocked many people by the poor administrative situation in Qingzhou. It was hard to imagine that the people-oriented Xuanxia court had already encountered such huge problems at the local level less than ten years after unifying the world.

These things might not be a big deal in the Han Dynasty. After all, the Han Dynasty was the world of scholars, and the gentry and officials had common interests. There was no need to be sneaky about such interest connections, and they could be done openly without any problem.

But now is the era of Xuan Xia, and the world has changed.

There is one advantage to breaking the entire world into pieces and rebuilding it, which is that Xuanxia does not have to make any compromises with the old era. All rules and order are re-established by Xuanxia. Things that everyone used to take for granted are no longer acceptable now.

As a former member of a poor family in the Han Dynasty, Zhao Yun certainly understood the ins and outs of this. After all, the so-called poor families were at the very edge of the interest system of the Han Dynasty's aristocratic families.

"I read in the newspaper reports that Guan Hai insisted until the very end that he was innocent. Although the court punished him severely, I'm afraid there are many people in the court who share the same opinion as him." Zhao Yun couldn't help but sigh quietly, feeling a lot of emotion.

Xu Chen nodded silently. Just as Zhao Yun said, no matter how hard he tried to improve the purity of the team, it would be impossible to truly make the world clear.

In fact, the real test of faith is not when you conquer the world, but when you rule the world.

When those people became heroes of the country, began to occupy high positions and look down on all living beings, enjoying the absolute power to dominate the people, how many of them could maintain their original intentions, and how many of them truly put the people in high positions in their hearts?

But no matter what others say, Zhao Yun remains consistent. He follows the Yellow Turbans for a reason and will uphold this belief forever.

He was mostly just watching the fun of the Guan Hai case, but he was also worried in his heart. He couldn't help but confide his inner thoughts to Xu Chen: "Xuan Xia has only unified the world for ten years, and there are endless corrupt officials in the localities, and their ranks are getting higher and higher. If this continues, I am afraid that the court's administration will collapse."

Xu Chen nodded upon hearing this, but he was not too worried: "To clean up the bureaucracy, we cannot rely on personal morality. People's hearts are the most unreliable. Only the system can deter and suppress lawlessness, but this cannot eliminate corrupt officials. The only way to do this is to persevere."

Zhao Yun could only sigh, as he knew very well that this was an unsolvable problem.

It is just as Xu Chen said, conquering the world is not the end, but the beginning, and the struggle will exist forever.

"Well, since the matter has been settled, there is no need to dwell on it too much. Since Zilong is here to report on his work, let's talk about the current situation in Liangzhou. Now that ten years have passed, can the local people of Liangzhou be won over? If the court wants to reform Liangzhou, are the conditions ripe?" Xu Chen straightened his face and went straight to the point. Zhao Yun sat up straighter after hearing this, and then began to talk about the real work of this trip.

"Based on my observations in Liangzhou over the years, the conditions for the court to launch reforms are now ripe. In the past ten years, Liangzhou has opened a large number of factories and built schools, and the people of Liangzhou have benefited from them. However, more people are still suffering from the local tyrants and cannot share the dividends here. This has long made many local people resentful.

As more and more factories appeared in Liangzhou, many free people could work as workers or farmers. Not only could they have stable food and clothing, but they could also support their children to go to school. However, those servants, tenant farmers or herdsmen who depended on local tyrants could not get rid of their personal dependence. They could only watch others enter factories and schools, while they themselves were enslaved by local tyrants.

Even though many local tyrants saw that industry and commerce were making huge profits and opened factories in accordance with government policies, the workers they employed were all low-level people who were dependent on them. They did not treat them as employees at all, but as slaves, and did not give them any concessions.

To this day, whether it is the local Qiang people or the Han people, they have long been resentful of the local tyrants. On the contrary, the government's good governance and improvement of people's livelihood have gradually increased its prestige. I think that as long as the government starts to settle accounts with the local tyrants at this time, it will surely gain the local mass support in one fell swoop. This matter will go with the flow and will basically not encounter any resistance! "

After that, Zhao Yun handed Xu Chen a thick document: "This is a report jointly written by me and Ma Teng on the situation in Liangzhou. The Prime Minister can refer to it in detail. As long as the court gives an order, Liangzhou can start the final liberation work at any time!"

Xu Chen looked down at the document handed to him, then he opened it and read it for a while.

The last thing he cared about before leaving office had finally come to a solution. In order to take back Liangzhou in a peaceful way, the imperial court made a certain degree of compromise and did not yet liquidate the Liangzhou nobles.

This compromise was to some extent a helpless move. If the government had been forced to do so, most of the local people in Liangzhou would not have stood on the side of the government.

Now, ten years have passed, and the situation is very different. If everyone's life remained the same as before after Liangzhou returned to the imperial court, it would be fine. But now that the imperial court governs Liangzhou, the lives of many ordinary people have visibly improved, which makes many people who depend on local powerful people jealous.

People are afraid of comparison. Once they start comparing, they will become unbalanced.

Under the protection of government policies and laws, their income is sufficiently guaranteed, and no matter how big the factory owner is, he dare not oppress the workers at will. However, while doing the same work, they can only work themselves to death and be ordered around by the powerful masters, and it is difficult for them to even have enough to eat. Such an extremely unbalanced situation will naturally make the lower-class people dissatisfied with the oppression of the powerful.

It was only then that they realized that if they followed the government, even ordinary people could live a good life and did not have to care about the faces of powerful masters at all.

Thus, people's hearts began to change quietly under the pull of reality.

"I think that this work can be started now." Xu Chen read the report roughly and had a relatively clear understanding of the situation in Liangzhou, so he made a decision straightforwardly.

(End of this chapter)