Yang De is only one in his thirty this year, but he is an old supervision official with deep qualifications.

His ancestors were from Chang'an, and his family had a small amount of wealth, but in the year of Zhang Zhongwu's rebellion, because the imperial court wantonly increased taxes in order to raise military expenses for Gao Yu's department, and the low-level officials also took the opportunity to exploit corruption, his father was framed and imprisoned, in order to rescue his father, he scattered all his family wealth, and after all, he still did not save his father, and his mother was too sad to follow his father.

Grief-stricken, Yang De touched the enemy's house one night, set a fire, and fled.

He fled all the way to the Northland, and finally settled down by finding a job as an accountkeeper in a merchant with his literacy. A year later, he was favored by the owner and married his only daughter to him, and his life was completely stable.

But Yang De did not inherit his family business in the future according to his father-in-law's wishes, he wanted to be an official and wanted revenge. And as a businessman, it was clear that he would not be able to achieve this goal.

So he waited for an opportunity all the time.

At that time, there were not many literate people in the north, so when Li Ze began to rise, Yang De immediately joined the Yixing Society, which was just emerging at that time, and as a rare reader, he was immediately favored by Yang Kai.

At that time, he was just twenty years old.

Now, he's back.

When I went to inquire about the enemy of the year, I found that the fire of my own back then actually buried all the enemies of his family in the fire.

There is no pleasure after revenge, only sorrow.

Now, of course, he will not simply attribute his family feud to the petty officials who were greedy for his own family property back then, those tax collectors who were like wolves and tigers to help and abuse, catch fast, and serve as servants.

In Wuyi, he learned a lot.

He began to think deeply about the problems in this society.

Now, he sat behind his desk, looking at the headcatchers, officials, and scribes of Chang'an County who were sitting upright below, and sighed. Back then, it was such people who forced his family to have no way out and his family was ruined.

Don't underestimate these people, their badness is painful for the common people.

Now, it is these people that he wants to transform.

Li Xiang once compared those big corrupt officials to tigers, those who do not slip away are like foxes, and those small corrupt officials are compared to flies and mosquitoes. And what makes the people feel the most painful is precisely these flies and mosquitoes.

Li Xiang warned them, these supervision officials, not to think that one day they can win a big corrupt official or a bad official and become famous in one fell swoop, but to focus more on the bottom and pay attention to those grassroots officials who are closely related to the common people, because every move of these people is related to the vital interests of the common people, and every illegal act of these people will make the common people more disappointed in the imperial court.

Yang De has beaten big tigers and investigated the most basic officials.

He found that when he took down the big tiger, the common people basically had no reaction, because the evil things that the big tiger did were not felt by ordinary people at all. But when he investigated those low-level officials, the common people cheered and were grateful to them as supervision officials.

Although Yang De knew that the evil deeds done by the big tiger had a far-reaching impact far beyond the evil deeds done by these grassroots officials.

He was touched by these personal experiences.

In the imperial court under Li Ze's rule, the high-ranking officials are basically clean, and there are not no big tigers, but there are really few. However, the grassroots officials are still doing evil and renovating their tricks.

Eventually, Yang De put his focus on this level.

For this reason, he did not hesitate to devote himself to the disciple of Bai Mingde, the servant of the Criminal Department.

Bai Mingde's family was originally an old official in Cangzhou. It is clear about the various jaw-dropping tricks of the officials. Basically, there are no various corruption tricks that he doesn't know. For a whole year, Yang De followed Bai Mingde and learned the tricks of this place clearly, and when he came out of the mountain again, it became a nightmare for those low-level unjudges in the entire northern land. No one can escape Yang De's scrutiny.

Yang De's reputation in the north was greatly enhanced, and he was promoted all the way up to become a middle and high-ranking official in the Imperial History Observatory.

And this time, Yang Kai brought him back to Chang'an from Wuyi, the purpose is to purge the low-level bureaucracy in Chang'an, with this general, I believe that it will not take long to make the low-level officials in Chang'an look new.

After all, most of the officials Li Ze brought from the north were middle and high-level officials, and the vast majority of these people who really came into contact with the common people still had to use the original ones.

Clearing his throat, Yang De said: "Everyone, let me introduce myself first, this official is from the Supervision Yuan, and the Supervision Yuan is subordinate to the Yushitai, what are we doing?" To put it bluntly, it's to spy on you, and if you do something bad and we find out, then your fate will not be good. Some people say that people like us have official hats dyed red with the blood of our colleagues, which is actually true, but they don't know that what we people want to do most is to do nothing. I hope that in your life, when you can see me, it will be the few days when I have been lecturing to you, and then we will not see each other for the rest of our lives, which is the best thing. It would certainly not be a good thing to see me somewhere outside of here. ”

As soon as Yang De opened his mouth, he made his subordinates, including Xu Xun, He Cang and others, nervous. Especially Xu Xun, in the past, these people were all under the management of the county, and basically got the county respect, and they got everything, as long as the county zun didn't fall, they would be fine, but now, the new court doesn't seem to be the case at all. Isn't the Imperial Observatory just in charge of officials?

They're not officials.

"You may think that you are not officials, but only officials. But in the eyes of the people, you are the official, you are the government, you are the court, your words and deeds all represent the court, you are the face of the court, but also the dignity of the court, and it reflects whether the court is a court that truly cares for the people. Yang De's words immediately solved the doubts in their hearts, "Therefore, among the orders issued by Li Xiang himself, all officials are included in the supervision regulations of the Supervision Yuan. ”

Heavy gasps came from below.

"Why do you need to be more regulated?" Yang De said coldly: "In addition to the above reasons I said, let's take a look at your treatment. The salary of ordinary catchers, servants, and scribes was five silver dollars per month. By the way, each silver dollar is a consistent money, and the deputy head catcher and the house manager are eight silver dollars, and the head catcher and each house supervisor are ten silver dollars. In addition, there are overtime pay, there are subsidies for out-of-town work, there are various benefits on holidays, there are cooling expenses in summer, heating expenses in winter, and at the end of each year, there are rewards. ”

As soon as Yang De's words fell, there was already a lot of discussion under his head, and everyone's faces were full of excitement, because this treatment was almost several times higher than before.

Sure enough, it's a new court, a new atmosphere!

"And ordinary people, what is the annual income?" Yang De continued: "The average in the Northland is eighty silver dollars. Considering the actual situation in Guanzhong today, the average level of ordinary people here will be between 30 and 50 silver dollars in the past two years, and there are still a group of people, I am afraid that they will not even reach this level. ”

Xu Hyun and the others nodded, not unattainable, but far from attainable.

"I think you all understand by now how well you're being treated, right?" Yang Dedao.

Everyone held their breath, waiting for Yang De's next words, below, it should be but!

"However, you also need to understand that good treatment is not so easy to get, and good treatment means that you have to follow more rules and put in more effort." Yang De stood up, slowly walked up to the crowd, and said, "You have a lot of tricks to make money, but today I am here to warn you to forget all the messy unspoken rules in the past, because these things will bring disaster to you." Or, some people think that their methods are very ingenious and very clever, then next, I will tell you some cases in this regard, you can also consider your own wrist methods, is there such a person smart? If you feel that you are not as good as these people, it is better to be honest. Because these people are now either serving hard labor or being sent to the border. ”

Yang De swirled around in the crowd, slowly and slowly narrating some of the cases he handled, and some of the people below were sweating one by one.

Xu Xun swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva even more, because he had also done some of the things Yang De said. In the past, he thought that this was not harmful, just to get a little money, but he didn't expect that under the rules of the new imperial court, these were all crimes and should be severely punished.

Looking at the performance of the people below, Yang De nodded with satisfaction, and it seemed that the purpose of education had been achieved.

"Have you done any of these things before? I think it must have been done. But the past, then it is over, a write-off, and the past is not to blame. But there will be such things in the future, everyone, don't think that your luck will be better than others. ”

After walking back to the bookcase, Yang De patted the thick book on the case and said, "Are any of us illiterate?" ”

After being silent for a while, a few people stood up and said in a low voice: "Hui Shangguan, I can read a few words, but I don't know much." ”

"Then I suggest that you still read more and be literate. This book of the Law is for each of you to read through and memorize. Only when you understand it, you will be in awe. Because of the relationship of time, I can only give you an outline and talk about the specific details, which you need to read through and comprehend by yourself. Now, let's get started! ”