For Chen Pingneng, at such a time, he still did not forget the mission of the prime minister and came out to reconcile the contradictions between the monarch and the minister, from an outsider's point of view, Liu Hong is undoubtedly very admired.

But Liu Hong is not an outsider.

Regarding what Chen Ping said, 'throw a scapegoat out within three days' and the like, Liu Hong didn't feel cold at all!

Chen Ping is still evading the crux of the matter - this money finally went into the treasury!

The treasury under the hands of the Prime Minister's Office!

Although Liu Hong's anger today is indeed really unbearable and vented, the actions of a political figure are never meaningless.

- Especially the emperor's sneezing, which requires the courtiers to carefully figure out the political creature in all directions, and it is impossible to be targeted.

Thinking of this, Liu Hong, who had already calmed down the anger in his heart, did not forget to make an expression of 'for the sake of the prime minister', flicked his sleeves with hatred, and said coldly: "Get up." ”

"I'm not Qin Shi Huang, so I don't need my courtiers to kneel around!"

After that, Liu Hong sat back on the couch with anger on his face and made the final conclusion for the whole matter.

"The prime minister has worked hard and made great achievements, and I can't bear to work too hard for the prime minister."

Seeing that Chen Ping was about to speak, Liu Hong preemptively said: "And supervising hundreds of officials is the responsibility of the imperial historian; If the corrupt officials are arrested, they will be in the hands of the court captain. ”

"If I hand over this matter to the prime minister, wouldn't the foreign clan think that there is no one in my Han family?"

"I don't even want to take it."

'Compassionate' rejected Chen Ping's ill-intentioned request, Liu Hong raised his head, looked at Chen Ping's heart, and said: "What the prime minister said is very true. ”

"Since there are evil officials and remnants of the people, they should be investigated for their crimes by filling their own private pockets with the laws of the country!"

"Order Tingwei to immediately arrest the evil officials of the remnants of the people in Dong City, find out the traitors who have anything to do with them, and commit crimes!"

After expressing his affirmation of Chen Ping's 'suggestion' with a serious face, Liu Hong looked at Zhang Cang, who was second only to Chen Ping on the left side of the court, and the fierceness in his eyes was a little fierce.

"The Imperial City of Chang'an, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, the rule of officials will be eroded to the point, and the imperial historian will be up and down, and he should introspect."

"The Marquis of Beiping took office at the beginning, and he should take this as a warning to rectify the imperial historians, and if there is a ***** not to do anything, a thousand stones and the next, the secretary can decide to go to his post!"

"Those who are greedy for money and use their positions for personal gain are all punished by the court captain and punished with a felony!"

Seeing Zhang Cang, who walked out of the court, bowing down to receive the order, the eyes of the hundred officials in the hall suddenly became lively, savoring the intention implied by Liu Hong's order.

A thousand stones and below, self-determination to stay?

More than 1,000 stones, but 2,000 stones!

Now serving in the center of Chang'an, with a rank of more than 2,000 stones, except for the military bosses: the general irrigates the baby, there are only twelve people - three princes and nine kings!

Not to mention Jiuqing's adjutant - Cheng, even the adjutant of the three dukes, the prime minister's chief officer, the imperial history Zhongcheng, and Taiwei Peng, are only at the level of a thousand stones!

Liu Hong gave Zhang Cang the power of 'Imperial Doctor belongs to Yaqianshi and below can be self-determined', which is equivalent to saying: Except for Qing himself, as long as there is conclusive evidence, everyone can dispose of it at will...

What's even more terrifying is that the imperial historian, who is the official audit and supervision agency, has to internally investigate the officials who have not done anything, or who have lost their virtues, so can other subordinate officials still hide?

I'm afraid that after the 'self-examination' of the Imperial Doctor Yamen is over, it will be time for Zhang Cang to make a greater effort to comprehensively and thoroughly investigate the officials of Chang'an!

Thinking of this, the courtiers and officials only felt a cold sweat on their backs - who dares to guarantee that their buttocks are clean after being an official for many years?

Even if you don't take it, you can't be sure if there are any things that have been 'missed' at home by your subordinates.

After recalling Liu Hongdi's words, everyone in the hall suddenly felt a sense of astonishment - this is something that a fourteen-year-old child can consider?

The central idea of Liu Hong's order is basically heard by anyone who has been mixed with officialdom: thoroughly investigate the subordinate officials in Chang'an, clean up the redundant officials who are lazy, fight corruption in an all-round way, and punish corrupt officials and corrupt officials!

But Liu Hong's words are very ingenious, in the whole sentence, there is not a single word mentioning 'the court has a division', and even very 'kindly' gave the hundred officials a buffer time - Doctor Yushi, first internal rectification!

When it comes to this, a fool can understand what Liu Hongdi means: Give you time, quickly wipe the bottom of your buttocks, as long as Zhang Cang doesn't find it when I turn around, I will take this as a matter of time!

didn't say it too bluntly, left dignity for the officials, didn't force it too tightly, and gave everyone time to 'deal with'...

At this time, the hundreds of people standing in the hall, including Zhang Cang and Chen Ping, the founding ministers, no longer had the slightest contempt for Liu Hong in their hearts - just the accuracy of the control of the situation, Liu Hong was no worse than Emperor Gao Liu Bang!

Baiguan's heart naturally put away the carelessness of this period of time, as well as the vacillation between the 'Imperial Party' and the 'Chen Party'; Zhang Cang also dropped the last trace of contempt in his heart that 'no matter what, he is only fourteen years old', and immediately became eager to try.

-- For any aspiring bureaucrat, an emperor with qualified political means is indispensable to the lofty ideal of 'supreme monarch and gentleman'.

Especially an emperor who behaves with such sophisticated means at such an age, it is enough to make Zhang Cang full of expectations!

However, there are two sides to everything, and it is impossible for any one thing to satisfy everyone; Some people are happy, and naturally some people are unhappy.

For example, at this time, Chen Ping, who was bowing down to receive the order with a twisted face.

-- The construction of a clean and honest government was an almost impossible task in the entire feudal era!

The limitations of science and technology determined that the means of supervision of officials in the feudal period could never reach the level of 'supervision by the whole people' in later generations; it was almost impossible to put an end to corruption in the feudal period!

The greed of human nature will make it almost impossible to 'hold monstrous power without profiting'.

In addition, the limitations of the times also made it impossible for the bureaucratic class at this time to accept the high-pressure supervision of 'not being greedy and not taking'.

- Such a low salary, if you don't take the opportunity to get some oil and water, you can drag your family to starve to death when you are old!

In an ordinary county, the annual salary is only 600 stone of corn, which is converted into money, and it is only more than 50,000 yuan.

This kind of income, let alone socializing in Chang'an, may not be completely guaranteed even in daily life!

Not to mention secretly sending gifts and seeking promotion, just the expenses in the normal category are enough to force a county commander to reach out helplessly!

- The boss invites a banquet, do you want to give a gift?

- Banquet subordinates, do you want to set up a banquet?

——During the New Year's holidays, do you want to give some meat and cloth to your subordinates to invite people to buy people's hearts?

——As the parent official of a county, should you go out with a bit of pomp, raise more than a dozen domestic slaves at home, and guard the left and right when you travel? Do these guards want to feed their stomachs and wrap a red envelope on the winter solstice?

One by one, all of them are money!

Almost every year, there will be a theory of things in the officialdom: a certain official has a clean and honest life, and his wife at home suffers from lack of rice, sewing cloth at home as the wife of the county order, and then going to the market to shout and sell...

What's even more worrying is that after a lifetime of honesty, when Zhishi returns home, he can't even eat his stomach!

This makes seeking personal gain through power the only choice for the vast majority of officials - if you are not greedy or don't take it, you won't be able to live at all!

Moreover, although today's officialdom is not as good as that of later generations, it takes decades of hard work, but if you want to be the magistrate of a county, you also need the ability to read and hyphenate words, as well as military merits.

But don't think that it is an ordinary thing to read and hyphenate in the Han Dynasty - in this era when there was no paper, no printing, and had just experienced the war at the end of the Qin Dynasty, all the bamboo slips in the category of 'books' were no less valuable than the same weight of gold!

- The key is that you pay for it, and people don't sell it!

If you want to roughly achieve the ability to 'write and recognize' commonly used words, then go through the relationship, and then take out a lot of 'thank you', find a high-ranking family with a book collection at home, and borrow books to copy.

Even so, there is a good chance that people will not let you copy it, and only allow you to look at it at his house for a while!

Not to mention what to find a teacher to teach - those who can afford to invite Mr. to study, except for a very small number of people with extremely high talent and talented faces, can get lucky, normal people can only spend a lot of money to beg for people!

Such a huge investment is used for the accumulation of knowledge, coupled with the meritorious deeds that have been desperately exchanged on the battlefield, in exchange for such an official and a half-position, not trying to be promoted and make a fortune, what is the purpose?

Is the Too young, too simple Tucson broken?

Therefore, the ideological concept at this time did not have the same hatred for the corruption of officials as that of later generations, and at most it was considered a moral problem, which was a bit 'bad'.

Feudal officials, only after reaching a certain height, will pay due attention to influence for the sake of fame and feathers, and stop making money through their power - in the final analysis, for those officials who have reached a sufficient height, money is already the most worthless thing.

In this context of the times, if Liu Hong really plunged headlong into the 'construction of a clean government', then Chen Ping would wake up with a smile in his dreams - without the prestige of Emperor Gao, the little emperor dared to offend the entire bureaucratic class, and it would definitely be self-isolation from the world!

Chen Ping doesn't have to do it himself, and the court can perform a play of 'Emperor Fei Hui' again in minutes!

But the problem is: the anti-corruption campaign that Liu Hong is planning to set off is Chen Ping's 'proposal'...

Judging from Liu Hong's rational giving a certain buffer time, and obviously stating that he would not expand the scope of the attack, the little emperor is not as stupid as Chen Ping ideally, and this time is likely to be a gust of wind.

In this way, the little emperor who set off this gust of wind can reasonably transfer the resentment of most of the bureaucratic class to Chen Ping, the 'initiator'...

The principle of bullying the weak and fearing the hard is not just the patent of later generations of bureaucrats - if you can find a second punching bag, no one will choose to hate a feudal emperor!

In order to show his responsibility as the head of a hundred officials, Chen Ping could only carry this black pot and bear the resentment of the bureaucracy together with Liu Jie, the fuse of this matter.

What's even worse is that Chen Ping can't care about how to get rid of this black cauldron anymore - the commercial rent that Neishi collected from the 'grain merchant' in Guanzhong is lying in the treasury of Qu Shunhou's Mansion at this time!

Judging from Liu Hong's realization of the matter of 'returning the rewards of the princes and ministers', it is very likely that Zhang Cang will go to the Prime Minister's Mansion 'by the way' when he investigates the officials of Chang'an Yousi and asks about the whereabouts of this commercial tax.

In order to avoid being the first tiger to suffer heavy in this anti-corruption campaign, the first thing Chen Ping has to consider now is how to settle this matter and remove himself from this anti-corruption campaign.

- The matter is not as simple as Chen Ping putting the thousands of gold cakes at home into the national treasury as they are!

What Liu Jie sent was a copper coin that had been sealed in Qian Ji (1) and recorded in the Treasury of the Internal History!

And Chen Ping found another 'expenditure' as a cover, and took gold from the treasury with a similar value to this copper coin and went home!

Now on the books of the treasury, it has been clearly written that 'the money lost in the internal history is 15 million', and the sentence followed by 'the prime minister's mansion took 2,000 gold from the military stable and raised horses'!

If Chen Ping sends this money back directly, then there will be an extra amount of 'the Prime Minister's Mansion returned 2,000 gold to the military stable for raising horses'...

Such a strange account is simply three hundred taels of silver here, and Chen Ping next door really didn't steal it!

Now, Chen Ping not only wants to let this money really be used to 'build a new stable for training war horses for the army', but also gives a reasonable explanation to Liu Hong and the court for a question that will inevitably be raised: the treasury is so tight, and it is very reluctant to make money, why should the prime minister build a stable with such a huge amount of money?

Why didn't such a major event be reported to His Majesty and discussed with the court?

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PS: 缿: Tong '銗', also known as 'box', generally refers to the government used to collect taxes money jar, or used to put anonymous whistle-blowing documents, both of which have the characteristics of 'can be in but not out'.

The "Two-Year Decree and Golden Cloth Law" stipulates that the official is for the work, the city, the rent, and the pledge money, all of which are inked, and they are sealed with orders and seals. Don't dare to use it.

The 'rent' mentioned in it refers to the commercial tax.

The "Guanshi Law" in "Bamboo Slips of the Qin Tomb of the Sleeping Tiger Land: Qin Law" also has the following explanation for "缿": the money recipient is also ······ In ancient times, it was tiled, and now it is bamboo.

"Hanshu Zhao Guanghan Biography" records: 缿, if the current Sheng Qian Zang (Tibetan cáng) bottle, is a small hole, can enter but not out.

Combined with the unearthed Qin Jian, Han Jian, and the "Book of Han" records, "缿", in fact, can be understood as a modern piggy bank, the local government will collect the money, stored in a bamboo box similar to a piggy bank, by the chief official and adjutant together with a seal seal, and then handed over to the central government. In this way, the money and taxes collected by the local government are not misappropriated or embezzled.

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