"Let me tell you a story...... In the past, sinners would be exiled to an island to fend for themselves, but when the ships transporting the convicts to the locality were brought to the area, the local officials would find that the mortality rate of the convicts was extremely high. Why? Someone has researched and found out why. Since the imperial court paid the boatmen according to the head, these boatmen tried their best to stuff people into the cabins, and the less water and food the better, regardless of the life and death of the criminals. So the imperial court changed the payment method, and changed it to the local government to pay according to the living people who disembarked from the ship, guess what the result was? ”

Regarding Miao Kui's question, Hong Tao did not answer directly, and began to tell the story again. At this time, everyone had not yet found a suitable office space, so they could only work together with Jingluo to appease the adults in the hall of the mansion, and when they heard the adults telling stories, they put down what they were doing and raised their heads.

"The merchants seek profit, and since they receive money according to the living, they must not let people die on the way." Hong Tao's question is too simple for the Song people, and I dare not say that all Song people have the talent of businessmen, but every Song person is no stranger to business, and even the honest Peng Da can give the correct answer without thinking.

"That's right, since then, less than one out of a hundred criminals have died on the island. Don't ask me what dynasty this is, my lord, the reason why I tell this story is not to let you compare historical materials, let alone let everyone discuss whether criminals should die or not. I just want to ask you a question, why did the boatman suddenly regard human life as a mustard and suddenly become Guanyin Bodhisattva? "The story Hong Tao is telling doesn't take place in China at all, let alone any dynasty, it's a real case of British exile of prisoners in Australia.

"......" Everyone suddenly fell into deep thought, saying that it was a businessman who was chasing profit, which was right, but the previous grass and human life were also profit-seeking. It's all profit-seeking, how can there be two completely different manifestations of one evil and one good, I can't figure it out.

"A philosopher once said that a bad system will make good people do evil, and a good system will make bad people good. The reason why Liao Chun did evil is probably not only his personal responsibility. This official deeply believes in this sentence, and is committed to turning Huangzhou into a place where bad people can be good, and I hope you will work together with me. ”

Liao Chun's incident touched Hong Tao a lot, and he didn't regret that he killed the wrong person, but he wanted to take the opportunity to instill an idea in these people.

The ancients had a natural fear for the emperor and believed that they should obey the emperor unconditionally. This concept is difficult to change, and it cannot make them repent overnight, and they have to use dripping water through stones to grind, and at the same time, supplemented by interests, they can get twice the result with half the effort.

In addition, these words are not completely fooling people, and Hong Tao feels deeply about the importance of rules. In later generations, his country has only been reforming and opening up for more than 30 years, and the wind of corruption is somewhat beyond that of the ancients.

Are those officials inherently evil? I don't think so, when they first embarked on their careers, they also had ideals, enthusiasm, and were ready to contribute to the country. But why did it end up being the opposite of the ideal?

Song Meiling once said a sentence that can explain this problem very well. It was at the end of the Anti-Japanese War that several reporters returned to Chongqing from Yan'an and highly praised our party's dedication to the ideal of honesty and prosperity.

After listening to it, Song Meiling said this to the reporter: If what you said is true, then I can only say that they have not tasted the real taste of power!

When I think that when she said this, the president's wife was deeply touched by the taste of power. Unfortunately, she seems to be right.

Hong Tao didn't want to say this sentence by himself again, and the Great Song he wanted was not the Great Song that could only last for decades. How can this cycle be avoided? Thinking about it, it seems that there is no other way but to gradually remove the rule of man and make the transition to the rule of law.

It's going to be hard, dangerous, and even hostile to everyone in power. But Hong Tao thinks he is a person with ideals, and he plans to taste what it means to be dedicated again.

What is the system, I'm afraid it's enough for everyone to think about it for a few days, and you can't bother Shuaisi, the adults have a very bad temper these days, and they will scold in the lobby from time to time.

In addition to not scolding the emperor, the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty were almost scolded by him for their lives. At such a time, whoever dares to cause chaos will have to be beaten if he can't keep it.

Even if you can't find the yamen and subordinate officials, you can't care about it, what is Lord Shuai Si angry for? There is only one answer, military affairs!

Hong Tao of civil affairs or something doesn't care at all, and everyone doesn't seem to starve to death when he doesn't have his own strategic appeasement, how to live or how to live, and he can't take care of so much for the time being.

However, Hong Tao, who was really unable to ignore the military construction in Huangzhou, became angry on the spot after meeting the guards of the various forts and listening to their work reports, first scolding the Privy Council as a waste, and then scolding Wang Anshi and Sima Guang as losers.

There was no shortage of loyal people among the generals, and they had just raised their objections, and before they finished speaking, they were convicted on the grounds that the unfavorable command of the army was not enough.

It's not in vain, Lord Shuai Si said, give two months, and then he will come to a walled fort to inspect the armament. At that time, there will be military exercises, and if the commander of the forbidden army who has been punished can lead his troops to win the pro-subordinate official forbidden army, then these ten boards can be returned on the spot. It doesn't matter if you don't dare to fight, Shuai Si will find someone to beat him by himself, just so capricious!

As for whether the other party is convinced or not, Hong Tao doesn't care at all, he has already won. In fact, this can be regarded as a trick, with the equipment and tactics of the subordinate officers' troops, there is no pressure to deal with the attack of more than three times the number of enemies, and even if the most elite and experienced forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty is transferred, it will definitely lose in the exercise.

Note that we are talking about exercises, and actual combat is another matter.

What really made Hong Tao angry was not that someone was talking back, but that Huangzhou's military construction was too backward and the troops were too weak. I don't know if the real defense is enough, because the Xia people have never attacked from this direction once.

But it is definitely not enough to attack, which Hong Tao immediately discovered, and then became angry. The emperor gave himself a problem, he didn't want to increase his troops, but also wanted to let himself take the initiative, isn't this a fool's play.

How many combat troops does Huangzhou have? Of the whole 5,000, there were 3,000 stationed in Huangzhou, and the remaining 2,000 people were divided into seven parts and scattered in seven walled forts. Why is it so distributed? The generals gave the answer: in order to prevent the rebellion of the various ethnic groups in Tibet who had not long been submissive.

As for how such a small number of troops could cross the border to fight the enemy, and how they could guard the hundred-mile-long border, the generals said again: The northern border is covered with mountains, and not only the large army of the Xia people cannot pass, but also the large army of the Song people cannot pass.

Since no one can see anyone on either side, make a hair? Their main job is to keep an eye on these people who have switched camps in three days!

How to stare at it? When Hong Tao saw Quanzhou's defense strategy, he immediately understood that the fortress blockade tactics carried out by the little devils during the Anti-Japanese War were not their original, but plagiarized from the Northern Song Dynasty.

There are a total of 15 forts in Huangzhou, with thousands of troops in large military forts and hundreds in small forts. All of them are located in river valleys or basins along the river, and they are also the main transportation routes of Huangzhou.

As long as these fertile and suitable places for cultivation are occupied, and then the traffic is cut off, it is equivalent to confined the local Tibetan people to a fixed area, unable to walk freely and unable to obtain sufficient living materials. If you want to survive, you must have a good relationship with the military villages and military forts, obey the management, and then you can exchange or labor for daily necessities.

There are advantages to this, but there are also significant drawbacks. The advantage is that it is relatively easy, you don't have to know each other too well, let alone think too much about them, just like a group of nominal employees. If you are willing to go to work, you will not be held accountable if you are not willing to go to work, as long as you don't add to the chaos and pay your salary every day.

What about the downside? There are a lot, the first is that it costs money and food. These Tibetan people will always have to live on the central government's financial allocation, and once the central government can't come up with this money, they will immediately rebel.

The second is that you have no sense of identity, since you don't intend to make your family a citizen from the heart, people will naturally not rush to recognize you as a monarch.

You think the other party is a burden, and you want everyone to die of a plague. People don't feel that they owe anything to your handout, and when you are beaten, you can stand aside and watch the excitement with peace of mind. If the benefits are sufficient, it's normal to rush up and give you two punches.

The third is that there are too many unstable factors, and after spending so much money and not being able to collect taxes, the results are all white-eyed wolves. There was a stir, and before the enemy came, they began to move. You're fighting in the front, and you're in the back to guard against them.