418 Li Er's worries
"The strategy you just talked about is novel and effective, but I care about one of the issues you mentioned." Li Er's majesty held his cheeks and looked at Suning.
Suning asked, "What's the problem?" β
Li Er's majesty frowned and said, "You said that the nobles of the Western Turks are getting richer and richer, and the upper echelons are getting richer and richer, which will only bring widespread corruption, and even all the officials are corrupt, what is the reason?" Since you are rich, you don't need to be corrupt to live well, right? β
Suning sneered in his heart, this matter can actually be analyzed with Jingkang's shame.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty was very wealthy, and its comprehensive national strength was comparable to that of the United States, so Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, formulated a policy of high salaries and incorruptibility, and the average salary of officials in the Song Dynasty was the highest in ancient China, and the rewards of gods and horses were also unimaginable.
But was official corruption in the Song Dynasty a light problem? Take a fact, during the Jingkang period, more than 200,000 Jin soldiers went south to Kaifeng, and Kaifeng, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, was known as 800,000 forbidden troops, 800,000 against 200,000, there was neither water nor fire, even if it was a fiasco, it would not be so miserable as a mess, even if 800,000 pigs were lined up into a phalanx for the Jin soldiers to cut it would take a long time, but the 800,000 forbidden army collapsed in a short period of time.
There are many reasons, but the most important reason may be that the 800,000 forbidden army is just a claim, and the fact is that Song Qinzong completely collapsed after breaking through the many obstacles formed by civilian officials before the war to check the number of forbidden troops, because until that time, he did not know the way. Of the 800,000 huge troops on the books, more than 700,000 have been paid empty salaries, and the real forbidden army is only a few tens of thousands, which is still crooked and cracked, and there are less than 10,000 soldiers who can fight.
It is extremely ironic that among the more than 700,000 empty soldiers, there are still ghosts who have been dead for more than 30 years, and the military salaries that have been received for more than 30 years have all been taken away by corrupt people. In addition to the 300,000 border troops in Kansai. The Great Song Dynasty was comparable to Germany's military spending during World War II, and 80% of it was eaten empty, and the Kansai Forbidden Army brought by the Seed Master Dao was the only soldier capable of fighting in the Great Song Dynasty at that time, and was wiped out by the Western Xia and Jin armies in turn. The Great Song Dynasty no longer had any soldiers to fight. This is the biggest reason for Jingkang's shame.
This is the absurdity and ridiculousness of the system of high salaries and pensions and civilian military leadership. It can be seen that the Central Plains Dynasty was never wiped out by the enemy, but played to death by itself, and the military attache had no status and no power. The civil officials were unwilling to establish a wartime system in the Great Song Dynasty so as not to damage their own power and interests, so they re-fortified and deceived their superiors and subordinates, and then the Jin soldiers came.
It is worth mentioning that in the first Kaifeng defense war, the army used by Prime Minister Li Gang and others were temporarily recruited civilians and scattered forbidden army border troops, as well as the so-called Qinwang army in various places, which was not organized at all, Rao was so, the Great Song Dynasty still repelled the Jin army to the south for the first time, and the wartime system established with the support of Song Qinzong showed its great power, and the foreign enemy could be defeated under the exhaustion of mountains and rivers, but then the wartime system was forcibly destroyed by the civilian group, Li Gang was exiled, and the master was angry to death, and the second Jin army went south, Jingkang's shame!
Two contrasts, stark! It's so fucking stark!
High salary? Civilian officers lead troops? Hehehe......
The civil officials will not talk about leading the troops, except for a few people, the others are all his mother's death, of course, Li Er's majesty will not be as naΓ―ve as Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Kuangyin will not die if he does not die, he will die, so the Great Song Dynasty died; His Majesty Li Er's control was very good, and as for the warlord division in the later period, it was done by Li Longji, and it had nothing to do with His Majesty Li Er's Majesty.
As for high salaries and honest pensions, without full legal support, it will not work, it can only bring uncontrolled giving, grafting and embezzlement, and then lead to a sharp gap between the rich and the poor, the widespread corruption of officials, the monopoly of the wealth of the whole society by the privileged class, and the serious polarization, and when the polarization is serious to a certain extent, it will either collapse nationwide, or it will be a national uprising, ushering in a new life.
It is estimated that it will not be long before this group of wilderness people has fallen into the luxury of enjoyment, and the mistakes of the king of Shang will come again, providing valuable experience to Suning and Datang, of course, their ending is also certain, their ending is to become the official administrative division of Datang, and all territories are officially included in the territory of Datang, establish Daozhou County, establish rule, and attack the Western Regions on both sides, preparing for the control of the Western Regions.
"Your Majesty, the minister is not saying that it is bad to be rich, but it is only that the officials are rich and the people are poor, what kind of situation will this be? Just like the doctor of Jizi saw the king of Shang using ivory chopsticks and worried about the disaster of destroying the country, it has always been reasonable to see the big from the small, the Tang people are people, the Turks are also people, everyone is a person, and they are inevitably seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages.
In this case, what will happen to the Western Turks will definitely happen to the Tang Dynasty, and it will not change because of the amount of knowledge. Almost all of them are because of the government's expropriation and tyranny, which caused public resentment, which led to uprisings in various places, and the Yellow Turban Incident was also caused by this, but it was just deified by Zhang Jiao. β
Li Er's majesty frowned and said, "Ridiculous, no one controls officials? So what does Goshidai do? What does Goshi do? And I, I am the emperor, and the officials must listen to me! I don't let them be corrupt, they dare to be corrupt?! β
Suning said with a smile: "On the surface, I naturally don't dare, wait for the limelight, and then continue to do it, it is the so-called policy and countermeasures." β
Li Erma's face froze: "What do you mean?" β
Suning said: "The world is so big, can it be done with just dozens or hundreds of imperial histories?" The relationship between the powerful and the wealthy is intertwined, and in order to protect their own interests, what can't be done? There are so many unjust cases in the world, can a royal history solve them? It's okay in Chang'an, if a case occurs somewhere in the south of the Yangtze River, the imperial history went to check, and even the ashes of the bitter lord couldn't be found, was it too late? Did you find it out?
Your Majesty. The so-called protection of officials and officials is this truth, a person falls, can involve a large number of people, these people in order not to be implicated, will definitely try to ensure that the offender is okay, just like the minister himself, if the minister commits any corruption or bribery or bribery of others, if the minister is investigated, the minister will be unlucky. But will the minister really be unlucky? Your Majesty. There is no one else here today, so the minister will say this, and the minister has not done anything wrong, but what about others? β
Li Er laughed first. Then his face became solemn: "It makes sense." But. What should I do? Could it be that you want me to install imperial histories in every Daozhou county and supervise local officials? Wouldn't the excessive power of the imperial history lead to corruption? β
Suning smiled: "Here's why." As long as it is an official, there is a possibility of corruption, so in order to prevent corruption of officials, the only way to do this is to find people who cannot be corrupt to supervise those who can be corrupt. β
Li Er's majesty was puzzled: "People who can't be corrupt? Who is it? You tell me that I'll get him back! β
Suning looked at His Majesty Li Er, sighed, and said, "Your Majesty, there is still an urgent matter in the minister's family, please retire!" β
Li Er was stunned for a moment, his face changed a few times, and he nodded: "I know that I have said, you can retreat!" β
Suning slowly left the study, leaving Li Er's majesty to watch Suning leave with complicated eyes, and then said to himself: "What does he want to say?" But you don't say it? What's so hard to say? Use people who can't be corrupt to supervise people who can be corrupt, and there are still people in the world who can't be corrupt? Who is it? Why didn't Suning say ......"
Of course, Suning can't say it, just say it at this time, what will His Majesty Li Erlu do? If he doesn't say it, he can't think of it, and when the time is right, he can say that Li Er's majesty is a smart person, and he also believes that he is a smart person, he knows what can and can't be said between two smart people, so he will release himself, and having a smart person as a boss is both a good thing and a bad thing.
If that organization is established in the future, what should it be called? Anti-Corruption Directorate? No, no, no, Suning always feels that for this kind of relevant department, it is more appropriate to remove the reverse word, and in turn it is more characteristic of the Celestial Empire, so let's use that, Independent Commission Against Corruption! It seems to sound more domineering, taller, well, it's decided that it's you!
Before Suning could be happy, Suning learned a very devastating news, Nima Duhe's stinky boy was missing! He's missing!
How did this Nima explain to Du Ruhui? Suning has begun to wonder if the kid drank too much wine and hid in which lump to sleep, but the fact is that there is no news about the Su Mansion turned upside down, there was no curfew last night, except for the closure of the city gate, Chang'an City can go anywhere, and there are many people, chaos, where can this stinky boy run? Suning decided to turn on Conan's aura, and the first goal of the inquiry was to ask who Du He was with after the most deceit.
Asked and asked, Suning asked about Su Xiaomei's body, and then listened to Su Xiaomei with a depressed face and said that she was too busy yesterday and was very angry, and then she got angry at Du He, saying that she hated him the most, and she didn't want to see him for the rest of her life, Suning finally understood the reason, Su Xiaomei was tantamount to destroying the last glimmer of hope in Du He's heart, and took away his life-saving straw, now, Du He won't collapse, right?
Suning criticized Su Xiaomei very seriously, don't you know why Lu Dao Duhe stayed in our house for the New Year and didn't go back to his own home? I've told you all about this, why are you doing this? My brother always thought that you were a good and sensible woman, so he told you the truth of the matter, but how could you disappoint your brother like this? Alas!
Suning shook his head, ready to go to Du Mansion to confess his guilt, and then by the way, he asked Du He where he liked to go when he was usually sad, if it was Qinglou, he didn't need to look for it, he just called a team of people to find him out, if it was another place, he needed to go out in person to soothe his wounded heart.
Who knew that Lu Dao Suning had not yet issued an order to prepare to go to Du Mansion, and Du He ran back by himself, smiling, with a happy smile on his face, the Su family was terrified, Su Xiaomei was even more surprised, Su Dingfang blurted out that this kid won't be insane, right? Qin Ziyue looked worried with a motherly face, the Liu family and the Wang family looked at each other, there was no way at all, and finally Su Ning stepped forward tentatively, and asked tentatively: "Qinglian, are you okay?" β
Du He looked at Su Ning with a strange expression and said, "What's the matter with Su Hou?" I'm fine! β
Suning wondered, "Where did you go yesterday?" We all found out that we couldn't find you this morning, why did you come back now? Where have you been? β
Du He smiled: "Oh, I went to the Military University last night. β
Suning was surprised: "What?!" Military University? You were out of town last night? Who allowed you to go out of town? Who opened the gates? He can be beheaded! Don't open the city gates at night, don't you know the way!? β
Du He nodded: "Zhilu Dao, so I drilled out of a hole, I used to do this when I was in a bad mood, this hole was accidentally discovered, it has been abandoned for many years, no one uses it, I use it, I went to the military university, recognized my father-in-law, now I come to pack up some things, send it to my father-in-law, he is alone, life is not easy, I have to be filial to him." (To be continued......)