The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 362
In the early summer, the air in Guanzhong has begun to become a little hot and dry.Outside Chang'an City, the willows in the willow grove near Baqiao are as sparse as ever, but those still hanging on the branches have turned dark green.

Chang'an is already the legal capital of Ji Han, so there are a lot of officials and soldiers coming in and out.Therefore, on the shore of the endless Bashui River, there are many people who come and go to see off on weekdays.But at this time today, there are very few pedestrians on the entire Baqiao.

The reason is that it was briefly martial law by a group of guards that day.

"Brother, don't be too regretful. My sister has already paid all the fines for you this time. Please don't be burdened. After this, the elder brother returned to Chengdu to study quietly for a while. By the way, he will be filial by his father's side. My sister will always take care of my elder brother's official career."

"Hey, little sister. Back then, my father said that the three of us are far worse than you. I was very unconvinced when I was a brother at first. Looking at it now, I am really stupid as a pig."

"My younger sister is a daughter after all, and she is married now. All thoughts and thoughts will of course be based on the interests of the Guan family. And my father's health has completely collapsed. The future of the Qiao family will still depend on the three elder brothers." So please don’t be disheartened, brother, and cheer up.”

"Yes. By the way, little sister, if brother Wei really colludes with that Zhang Hui this time and commits a serious crime..."

"Little sister told her husband from the very beginning. If you should kill him, kill him. If the elder brother really committed a serious crime, the younger sister will not plead for you. Because begging is useless..."

"Hehe...it's okay, okay."

"Although the younger sister told her husband to handle it fairly, she still has no doubts in the elder brother's character. So the younger sister was not afraid of the elder brother committing a capital crime from the very beginning."

"Hey, even so. But Brother Wei still accepted bribes from the people below. Because of this, he was unconsciously pushed aside by others."

"Hehehe, big brother. When Zifeng taught Fu'er to read "Five Beetles" at home, he said that even if your official is as clean as water, it is difficult to beat other officials as smooth as oil. The chief officials at all levels are all foreigners. Go After being there, I couldn’t even understand the local dialect for a year or so. So I had to rely on the help provided by the local tyrants and aristocratic families. Even those clean and honest officials were hard to avoid being emptied by the officials below. What's more, like elder brother, who has no experience in actual government affairs and directly serves as the head of a county?"

"...Hey. So, it doesn't matter if I am a big man's procuratorial system, or the Wei and Jin nine-rank Zhongzheng system. Scholars from all over the country will become county magistrates as soon as they become officials. I am afraid that except for a few talented people, most of them Counties and counties are actually controlled by local officials, right?"

"Hehehe, big brother is enlightened."

"It's not a matter of enlightenment or not. Through this matter for my brother, I have understood a lot of truths. Many times the court's ideas are good, and officials at all levels are willing to implement them, but this official..."

"Well, my younger sister also told my husband about this. My husband said that the current elementary school has not yet reached the harvest time. It will gradually get better in the future."

"Okay. Little sister, I'm going to set off now. It's inconvenient to let other people cross the bridge if you stay here all the time. After a long time, that Chang Yan Wang may even impeach you."

"Hehehe, what the elder brother said is true. The husband of Chang Yan Wang is afraid." At this point, Qiao Qiang went to the bridge and broke a willow branch: "Elder brother, take care."

"Little sister, take care."

The two brothers and sister waved goodbye, Qiao Qiang walked towards Chang'an City for a while, Qiao Xi urged the horse to come back.

"Brother, is this what you want?"

"Little sister." Qiao Xi blushed in a rare way: "Please go back and say something to Guan Zifeng. The officials here in Yongliang are much worse than ours in Yizhou. If they are not strictly enforced Controlling, the chief officials at all levels from my Yizhou side will inevitably stumble like Brother Yu."

After saying this, Qiao Xi immediately turned around and urged the horse under his crotch to go south quickly.

"Hehehe, it's true, it's so embarrassing for a person in his 40s to say something from the bottom of his heart."

On the way back to Chang'an's mansion, Qiao Qiang changed his pretended relaxed expression when facing Qiao Xi just now, and his two curved eyebrows couldn't help but knit together.

The family style of the traverser's family has always been casual, and there are not so many rules in this era.In addition, Qiao Qiang was originally a strong woman who was as intelligent as a man.Therefore, she may not have a thorough and far-reaching view of the many problems that exist in this country.But it doesn't mean she doesn't understand at all.

What Qiao Xi said before leaving, she deeply believed in it in her heart.

When Ji Han lived in Yizhou before, on the one hand, he wanted to use every ounce of national power for the Northern Expedition as much as possible.On the one hand, the ruling Jingzhou faction is naturally supervised by the Dongzhou faction and Yizhou faction with extremely critical eyes.Therefore, there must be corrupt officials throughout the Shu Han, but overall, the civil servants of the Shu Han are the most efficient and clean among the Three Kingdoms.

Not only that, due to the excessive proportion of military expenditure in the past.Therefore, in addition to heavy taxes and land scraping, the Shu Han with financial constraints.He is also very mean to his own officials: all the princes and princes are false nobles.Even the salaries of ordinary officials have to be discounted: the annual salary of county prefects is graded.The least is almost at the same level as the county magistrate.

But things are different now.On the one hand, Yongliang started, and the contradictions among the Jingzhou, Yizhou, and Dongzhou factions were greatly eased—supervision was eased.On the other hand, the state's plundering of ordinary people has become less cruel.With spare money in their hands, the ordinary people can search for it outside of the official tax revenue of the country. In the past, the people of the Shu Han were always struggling with life and death, and it was difficult to search for it.This is a change in the internal environment of Ji Han officials.

On the other hand, the former Yongliang area was under the jurisdiction of the Wei and Jin Dynasties.This is the border, and the Kanto region has poured a lot of money and food into it all the year round.There is too much money and food in transit, and there are too many people reaching out.In addition, over the past few decades, the Yongliang family has gradually lost power in the Wei and Jin courts.This politically lost room for improvement, of course, can only be made up by the economy.Therefore, the previous official style in Yongliang area was very bad.

Now the Jihan regime wants to firmly control Yongliang on the one hand, and on the other hand, it wants to make contributions to the officials of the various factions of the original Shuhan who supported the Northern Expedition for many years.Therefore, the official positions of the counties and counties in the Yongliang area must be tilted towards the officials of the various factions of the Shu Han.This caused a huge problem: the Shu Han officials who had been bitter in the past went to Yongliang and were taught by the local officials... There are probably only a few who can stick to their principles.What's more, it's half-push and half-do, drifting with the flow or even advancing bravely, right?
To keep the official style clean and efficient, I don't know how many people and years it takes to accumulate.But to fall is just a matter of a moment.

After thinking about this, Qiao Qiang returned to the Da Sima Mansion with a lot of worries.But he saw Guan Yi holding a brush and gnashing his teeth to write.

Seeing her husband's expression, Qiao Qiang burst out laughing: Everyone thought Guan Zifeng was omnipotent.Only those close to her and Liu Ling know that Guan Da Sima's handwriting is no different from that of a dog.

"Huh? Where is Madam coming back? Has Eldest Brother sent you away? You don't have any resentment towards your husband, do you?"

"There is no resentment, brother has realized his mistake. But brother said one thing..."

"Oh, so that's the case. It seems that the eldest brother has realized this. It just so happens that my husband has just drafted a decree, and my wife is here to help me see it."

Following Guan Yi's fingers, Qiao Qiang looked over his head: the order to establish the ICAC!
"It turns out that your husband has already..."

"Well, ma'am, you also know. Now that Yongliang is newly incorporated, this official style is much worse than that of Yizhou before. My husband has long wanted to rectify it. But there were too many things a few days ago, and I have been I don't have time to do this... and there is also a lack of an opportunity. Therefore, this matter of big brother is actually an opportunity."

"Hehehe, my husband, I have actually heard of it in private. Sima Guan has a thick face and a dark heart, and he is best at turning unfavorable things into things that are beneficial to him."

"Tch~~ Have you ever said that about your husband?"

"Then is your husband going to give the ICAC great authority?"

"Of course, independent prosecutorial power. Once this authority is released, even a husband can't control it. But politicians should not think that everything is in their own hands. If that happens, they will end up taking care of one thing and losing another, and can only barely maintain a balance. That's all."

"Prosecutorial power...then the ICAC finds out problematic officials, who will punish them?"

"Good question, madam. Of course, this matter must be handed over to a special court to decide."

"Court? What is this thing?"

"It's probably the same as the former Tingwei. But my husband's idea is that when Lingbo and the others come back from Rome, I will first borrow the essence of Greek and Roman civilization and revise the new "Law of the Great Han". Then use the "Law of the Great Han" At that time, the judiciary will also be independent. At that time, the sentence that the punishment cannot be a doctor may be outdated from the inside out.”

　When the author Jun was a child, Jia Yan’s unit had a row of facades.The leaders of the unit rent it out, and the rent is used to distribute benefits to the unit's employees.But for more than a year later, the merchants who rented the facade did not pay the rent. Although the office director in charge of this work was scolded many times by the leaders of the unit, he was blamed by the employees of the unit.But it just couldn't be paid.The unit leader had no choice but to adjust his position and let Jiayan be the director of the office to collect the rent.It took Jiayan three days to recover all the rent and interest on the debt.The author was still a junior high school student at that time, so he couldn't understand the key points in it.Ask Jia Yan why he is so fast.Jia Yan said with a smile: I don't eat his food, I don't accept his stuff, of course I'll be quick.Therefore, once the word greed begins, it is often beyond one's control.

　　Then again, after the author Jun grows up and has social experience, he feels that Jia Yan collected the rent too fast.This set off the former chief of staff very badly.This is actually very bad.This is also one of the reasons why Jia Yan's official career was not smooth.One must be an upright official, but one must pay attention to methods and methods.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)