Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 2165 The Four Dimensions of the Country

  『According to the investigation, there are illegal things in Sanfu everywhere...』

  Zhuge Liang delivered a long list to Zheng Xuan.

  『Corruption is the most important thing. The hussars allocated money and food to resettle the refugees, or they took it for their own use, or used it as a good one, or deducted or exempted it, it varies...』

   One by one, like blood and tears.

  Perhaps for corrupt people, isn’t this little money all small money? Take a little and use a little, what's the matter?

   Is it worth the fanfare?

   Fei Qian had read all these materials, so Fei Qian drank tea slowly, and then signaled the guards to bring Zhuge Liang a copy.

  Zhuge Liang bowed his hands and thanked him, then bowed his head and didn't say much.

   Zheng Xuan flipped through the pages with trembling hands.

  Even though Zheng Xuan has reached a certain level of self-cultivation, but after seeing such a list, some unconcealable anger is still revealed.

Because of the influence of Emperor Han Ling, many officials in the Han Dynasty accepted bribes, and the benefits of buying and selling were almost blatant, some of them even covered it up a little bit, and some didn't even bother to cover it up, so Zhuge Liang easily collected a lot of bribes. All the problems were recorded in the small book.

   Fei sneaked aside, neither sad nor happy. Facing corruption is not a pleasant thing after all. Perhaps there is such a saying that is discouraging. As long as the Chinese civilization is, so is the history of corruption. The 5,000-year history of Chinese civilization is also accompanied by Five thousand years of corruption history!

   Of course, the same is true abroad, and it is even more serious.

  As long as there is a political system, the problem of corruption seems to be a hurdle that can never be bypassed.

  It is like a small cancer cell, which is inconspicuous at first, and when people notice it, it has grown into cancerous tumors, and it grows geometrically. It won't take long for the seemingly behemoth dynasties to be completely destroyed. The past dynasties also attached great importance to this, and took the administration of officials as a top priority, but unfortunately the effect was not obvious.

  Even though the old dynasty died due to corruption, the new dynasty seldom learned the lesson, and from the very beginning, it embarked on the same path of demise.

  『There are three reasons for corruption. 』

   Fei Qian said slowly, "First, we cannot make ends meet. 』

  This is the most basic factor.

  Many officials didn’t necessarily want to take the path of corruption at the beginning. Many times it was because they found out that they were not corrupt and had no money to use…

   Except for the two Song Dynasties, the salaries of civil servants were generally not high, and the lowest was in the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the county magistrate’s annual salary was only 90 shi for rice, 7 and a half shi per month, which was enough for the whole family to eat. They often have to take out a considerable part of their salary to pay others.

Scholars have been in the cold for ten years, and they have learned the ways of Confucius and Mencius. If they are classics, they are catchy, but when it comes to specific government affairs, it is a stick to deal with them. Therefore, except for matters other than classics, most of these newly appointed civil servants have to find their own people. do it for them.

   is the so-called master, and at least two must be invited.

  The one in charge of punishment and prison is called Xingming Shiye; the other is in charge of finance, called Qianliang Shiye.

  The master and the county magistrate are not superior-subordinate relationships, but employment relationships. Naturally, their salaries are not borne by the court, and they have to be paid by the magistrate himself. At the same time, in order for the magistrate to live comfortably, in addition to hiring masters, he also has to hire secretarial teams such as clerks, accountants, etc., and these masters also have their own families, so the combined living expenses are a fixed consumption expenditure .

  『The root cause is that the job is more important than the person. Fei Qian said, "The strength of one person is hard work, day and night, there is a time to do it, and it will not be perfect in the end. Therefore, it is better to ask for complete blame than to retreat to the second..."

  Because of lack of ability, I have to ask for help, and these temporary workers who help will not have any scruples. After passing this village, there will be no such shop. If you have the right to use it, are you still waiting to starve?

Even if one is capable, the hours a person can work each day are limited. In ordinary small villages and small towns, one person may be able to handle it. In larger counties, or even larger areas, no matter how capable a person is, he may not be able to work. Can't cover everything. This is an objective fact, and it does not change with personal effort or lack of effort.

"Therefore... the county has four Caos. Households, farmers, workers, and merchants are all under the jurisdiction of the county magistrate, each with four hundred stones. In addition to these four Caos in the county, there are also two Caos for officials and soldiers, also four hundred stones, which belong to the prefect. . Fei Qian said slowly, "The newly appointed person will belong to each Cao Lilian. He will be appointed every three years. After the full term of assessment, only the best ones will be promoted to the county magistrate. 』

   Isn't it impossible for one person to manage it?

  Then simply split the original responsibilities, and assign a series of deputies to the county magistrate and county magistrate, and the court will give the salary.

  Zheng Xuan was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and then sighed: "I'm afraid it's not easy." 』

   Fei Qian suddenly smiled and said: "It was not easy before, but it is not difficult now. 』

  Zheng Xuan was stunned, then shook his head and smiled wryly, "Is this Zheng Boke Duan Yuyan?" 』

   Fei smiled but did not answer.

  Actually, on the issue of salary, sometimes these officials cannot be completely blamed.

   Note, sometimes.

  For example, in feudal dynasties, generally speaking, the avoidance system is implemented. Officials are not allowed to be in their hometown, but have to travel thousands of miles away. Naturally there is a post station, but what are the conditions... So since there is a post station, the imperial court naturally doesn’t care about the travel expenses. If you want to improve your life along the way, you must rely on your colleagues to entertain each other. If you don’t spend money to entertain others today, you can go somewhere by yourself Or if the subordinates go to a certain place to do business, just wait for the northwest wind.

   And even if it is to pay for travel expenses, it is often deducted. For example, in the Ming Dynasty, food and banknotes were used for settlement. The food is not bad, it is more or less hard currency, but Dameng pays money, it is really a huge pit, the inflation is almost like waste paper, and it can only be used for burning when going home.

Also, because of the economic difficulties of the court, or the department that issued the salary took advantage of it, and then replaced the salary, money and food that should have been distributed with various things, sometimes with salt, sometimes with cloth, and even with pepper, anyway. If there are too many things in the treasury, they will be taken out to replace the salary.

   What's more overbearing is that no matter what kind of ceiling is used, it doesn't follow the market price, and everything is set by the imperial court itself. For example, during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a shortage of food everywhere, so the imperial court used coarse cloth instead of rice to distribute salaries to officials, one stone for one horse. On the market, a piece of coarse cloth is only worth three or four taels of silver, and a stone of rice is worth at least ten taels of silver. Does this mean that officials are going to gnaw on strips of cloth to satisfy their hunger...

  If the court does not follow the rules and regulations, how can it be possible to keep the local government honest?

  『There are two reasons for corruption,』 Fei Qian stretched out his second finger, 『Interpersonal communication. 』

  People definitely have social needs, but for an official, if the social needs are too high, it is definitely not a good thing. With welcoming and sending, it is inevitable to express that after eating this family, more or less depends on the specific official rank and power. Of course, it's okay to be upright and not express at all. In most cases, you won't force someone to express something on the surface.

It's just that the consequences of not expressing it may be that the office funds will never be received in real terms, there will always be mistakes in the end-of-year assessment, everyone will shake their heads when the name is mentioned in the officialdom, and the rumors will always spread to the boss inadvertently. In my ears, even if I want to go to the chief to justify my appeal, I may not have a chance, because the concierge is also respectful...

   It is not difficult to change all this, just open your fingers a little bit. Colleagues who were originally hostile will immediately become friends, the quality of life of family members will be doubled, the year-end assessment will always be excellent, and they will be recommended and reused in front of superiors intentionally or unintentionally.

   Moreover, doing this is not afraid of being discovered, even if it is discovered, no one will jump out to criticize, and even others will defend each other...

  Because this is a circle of contacts, a circle of corrupt officials. The people in this circle are all corrupt officials, everyone is corrupt, and corrupt officials are very willing to expand this circle and use normal "interpersonal communication" as a cover to form a huge system.

  『Since you are an important minister in the court and in charge of the local people’s livelihood, can households have an editor, farmers can get a harvest, workers can be useful, and businesses can be prosperous? Does he have the time to do this? A literary meeting in three days, and a banquet in the middle of the month? ’ Fei Qian said indifferently, ‘There are only two banquets in the county and county. The spring banquet is held at the end of winter, and the harvest banquet is held in autumn. Who was the banquet and how much it cost, Zhiyin registered it in the book and tracked it down for verification. 』

  Zheng Xuan wanted to object subconsciously, but after thinking about it, he shook his head and said, "Hussar's method is easy to know but difficult to practice..."

  『After all, there are regulations first, and then there are rules. 』Fei Qian tapped lightly on the table.

  Zheng Xuan knows that if officials hold banquets every now and then, they are obviously not serious officials. Isn't it a banquet? To put it bluntly, this is a very difficult boundary to determine.

  What Feiqian thought was not to stop all banquets blindly, but to prohibit eating and drinking with public funds on the surface, hold public money, and then hold his own banquets, and expand his circle of corruption by the way? Isn't this clearly deceiving Feiqian, isn't Nafeiqian just a fool to fool him?

  Fei Qian stretched out his third finger, "The reason why corrupt people are rampant is because they earn a lot and commit very little crime." Therefore, the crime of corruption should not be asked first. It will be determined in the third trial, but if it is true, it will be announced to the world that a certain person from a certain family has been corrupted and what they have done because of a certain incident! All his wives do hard labor to pay for money and food, and within three generations, they are not allowed to be officials! 』

  Zheng Xuan suddenly felt a bit of toothache, covered his cheeks and stopped talking.

  The ruling class naturally protects the interests of the ruling class, but do they still need to protect the traitors who poach their own corners?

  The key is to poach the corner of your own house, not just the officials, but also the emperor...

  For example, the stamped crazy psoriasis of the braided dynasty.

  Psoriasis is just too idle and comfortable. He is in charge of such a big empire at a young age. Grandpa consolidates the country, and father enriches the treasury.

  However, prodigal sons are really good at prodigals. In the late stage, they are almost defeated, so they cleverly set up a name and made money for crimes.

  Who dares to say no? I can only obediently pay.

  Who dares to gamble with the head? If you know how to do it, go to Heshen, only Heshen knows what psoriasis is thinking, but Heshen also charges an information fee.

   It seems to be a win-win situation. The officials passed the customs smoothly, and the emperor got the money for nothing, and he also got the reputation of "benevolent emperor". In fact, the money is not counted on the heads of ordinary people? Such things as drinking poison to quench thirst and shake the foundation of the country can only be figured out by this braided head and magical brain circuits.

  That's why Fei Qian specifically proposed that the crime of corruption cannot be forgiven for any reason.

  Zheng Xuan sighed, and said: "The hussars know that if this is the case..." Zheng Xuan glanced at Zhuge Liang.

   Fei Qian nodded, and said, "Therefore, someone ordered Fei Zicheng to commit suicide." 』

   Zheng Xuan shook his head, paused for a moment, then shook his head again, but said nothing.

Fei Qian said slowly, "Since the beginning of the Qin Dynasty, there has been supervision to deal with official corruption. The great Han Dynasty also had governors. The original intention was to supervise the local area and curb corruption. However, things are contrary to expectations... The more supervisors are, the more likely they are to be corrupted." ...'

Generally speaking, these supervisory agencies have some functions at the beginning, but because no one can supervise the supervisory agencies, and in the face of such a power similar to imperial power, their own corruption is also the fastest, causing harm. Even bigger than normal corruption.

  In the end, among the feudal dynasties, these institutions that were originally used to fight corruption have evolved into the largest dens of corruption. The greater the power of the anti-corruption institution, the higher the status, and the worse the corruption.

It is not that there were no supervisory agencies in the feudal dynasty of China, but the supervisory agencies were also corrupt, so anti-corruption naturally cannot be successful, and corruption and corruption have become a means of buying peace under such supervisory agencies, spending more money Buy Ping An, and then collect more people's wealth.

  It is impossible for the emperor to personally investigate the case and collect clues, so he can only send imperial envoys to act on his behalf. This is tantamount to letting the imperial envoy confront the entire corrupt bureaucracy. This kind of courage is not everyone has, and many times the emperor himself does not have the determination to fight corruption, and sometimes it is just a political transaction. Therefore, except for a very few imperial envoys, most of the imperial envoys came to ask for benefits with imperial decrees.

  Everyone is tacit.

  Anyway, the world belongs to the emperor, you and I are all wage earners, and it is not easy to be an official in the same dynasty, so don’t do anything wrong. At the emperor's place, just write a memorial to fool him, and he will only read the memorial anyway.

  As for the imperial envoys, they just want to entertain them well, and they must never dare to be less filial. Therefore, in feudal dynasties, it is often that the court fights against corruption, and the more they fight, the more corrupt they become, and the court suppresses corruption, and the more they suppress, the more corrupt they become. The stronger the anti-corruption efforts, the harder the ordinary people will be raided. I usually take a lot of corrupt officials, and when something happens, I can manage it from top to bottom. Naturally, someone will help me talk, but if I take a small amount, I may not be able to manage it all. Grab one or two for business.

  In the feudal dynasties, there were very few big corrupt officials executed. The reason why many corrupt officials were caught was often not economic problems, but the failure of political struggles. The so-called corruption is just a bonus of its guilt.

  To be honest, when Fei Qian thought of these things, he even felt very helpless for a while.

  Even if Fei Qian opened the perspective of God.

  Sit back and do nothing, and do nothing?

  Corruption is definitely getting worse.

  A thorough investigation like this one?

   That's because of Zhuge, and that's only a small part.

   There are also Hanzhong, Sichuan and Shu, and even Beidi.

  Fei Qian turned his head and asked Zhuge, "Kong Ming, Duke Zheng's intention, do you know it?" 』

  Zhuge Liang cupped his hands slightly, his tone was steady, and he seemed very calm, "I know." If this order comes out, the hussars may be fine, I am the enemy of corruption in the world, if they fall into their hands, they will surely die without a whole body...』

Zheng Xuan raised his eyebrows, "Little friend, then you... hey..." Zheng Xuan looked at Zhuge, his eyes were full of complicated emotions, then turned his head and frowned at Fei Qian, as if he was worried about Zhuge This kind of perception feels praise and distress, or feels that Fei Qian is suspected of being a capitalist, using child labor unscrupulously, deceiving the innocent Zhuge Xiaoliang...

   Zheng Xuan is also an old and refined person, so he is also very contradictory about these things.

  On the one hand, Zheng Xuan has righteousness, but on the other hand, he also has selfishness...

   People, it’s always like this, good and bad, black and white.

As long as Fei Qian expresses strict control over corruption, the first people to be brought out must be people around Fei Qian, or people close to him like Pang Tong and Zhuge, or people of blood clan like Fei He. There are such people who are caught with conclusive evidence, and then pushed to the bottom of Fei Qian's nose.

"Alas..." Zheng Xuan sighed slowly, then stuffed Zhuge Liang's report into his arms, then looked at Zhuge Liang, and said gently, "...this kind of nonsense, my little friend is very talented, Can it be dusted because of this? The time of the old man is numbered... let the old man come to this kind of wicked people...』

  『Zheng Gong! ’Zhuge Liang moved forward a bit, left the table and bowed, ‘What can you do, boy? How dare you trouble Zheng Gong? Never! 』

  『This matter is somehow related to the old man... After all, he is also the old man’s disciple...』 Zheng Xuan signaled Zhuge Liang to wake up, then turned his head to stare at Fei Qian, "It’s just that I have a word of advice..."

   Feiqian tidied up his clothes, sat upright and cupped his hands, "Please speak, Mr. Zheng." 』

  Zheng Xuan said in a deep voice: "If you don't control the hegemony, you will be Xiaobai, and if you win the world, you will be Duke Huan." The world is always like this! If he dies and declines, and his virtue is slack, then Hu Gong will not have it, and the bells and worms will flow! Be careful when looking at hussars. 』

   Fei Qian took a deep breath, then cupped his hands and bowed, "I would like to be taught. 』

Zheng Xuan nodded, then touched the scroll in his arms, and stood up, "In the past, someone just said what he said, and the reason is enough to pass on, but self-knowledge is hard to help, and he can't save the adversity. …Now that I have this, it can be regarded as a little creation, and it can be used to help the public! Fortunately! Fortunately! Ha ha ha ha…"

  After Zheng Xuan finished speaking, he burst out laughing.

  The world is pure white.

   Zheng Xuan walked forward, and the snowflakes fell, leaving a line of footprints that may be deep or shallow...

  (end of this chapter)