Pang Xuan is in Zhao State and is the left division.

This position is not something that ordinary people can hold, he has two requirements, the first point, the age must be old, in terms of age, not to mention in Zhao State, that is, in all countries, Lao Pang has no opponents, a lot of old Lou Yan is ten years younger than him, Zhao Kuo speculated, this Pang Gong's age should be close to eighty years old, the second point is to have qualifications, at this point, Pang Gong is also proud of the existence of Zhao Guo. He was an important minister of the Martial Spirit King!!

And the specific work of the left master is actually to give some advice to the king, which is equivalent to the king's personal adviser.

Pang Xuan and Wei Wuji met with King Zhao at the same time and proposed to King Zhao: Let Ma Fujun inspect all parts of Zhao and find out those evil officials who are the troublemakers. King Zhao didn't understand why they cared so much about this, not only King Zhao, but also the ministers in the palace were also a little confused.

King Zhao asked: "There are evil officials in the country, and the widow can let the county guards and county officials in various places strictly investigate, why do you need Ma Fujun to investigate in person?" Pang Xuan frowned, looked at the ministers, and said: "Because the county officials colluded with the country officials, ignored the king's royal decree, did evil, and let the thief leader deal with the thieves, what do you think it will be?" ”

King Zhao was furious, and he asked, "How can you compare a widow's minister to a thief?" ”

"Isn't an official who endangers more than a hundred thousand people more hateful than a thief who endangers three or four people?" , Pang Xuan said unceremoniously: "Shangjun wants to absorb more talents, these talents are still willing to follow you when they see these vicious officials on the way to Handan?" At the beginning, when Xunzi left Zhao State, he told me: He didn't see a good official on the road, because he didn't want to be with these thieves, so he had to leave. ”

King Zhao's eyes widened, almost exploded, he stood up, walked back and forth a few steps, gritted his teeth and said: "So that's the case, the widow has a lot of respect for Xunzi, but he left the Zhao State to serve as a county commander in the Chu State, the widow has always been a person who doesn't understand why, and now I know that it turned out that it was because of these thieves in the country, they dared to force away the widow's talents!" Okay, let Ma Fujun go and investigate! When you encounter evil officials, Ma Fujun can kill them! ”

"From the county to the countryside, no one is allowed to disobey the order of the king of horses, this is the royal decree of the widow!!"

King Zhao shouted angrily.

The ministers lowered their heads, not daring to speak at all, Lou slowly looked at this old friend, and shook his head helplessly, if he is in the palace today, he will definitely make him the enemy of the magistrates of Zhao State, and those officials will feel that they have been insulted, alas, why do you need to do this? Not only him, but also the important ministers here, also did not understand Pang Xuan's behavior, Pang Xuan had many friends, and he had never said anything that offended others like today.

Only Wei Wuji, who was standing not far away, understood Pang Xuan's thoughts, he wanted to replace Zhao Kuo and attract all the hateful eyes.

What Wei Wuji wanted to say had already been finished by Pang Xuan, and he had to add: "I heard that in the Qin State, if the recommended officials make mistakes, the recommenders will also be guilty of the same crime, therefore, the officials of the Qin State do not dare to recommend villains who are not virtuous and have no talents, for fear of being implicated, please ask the Emperor to implement the law of joint sitting in the Zhao State.... In addition, if you can detect the evil done by the low-level officials and deal with them, they can avoid being implicated, and those who sit idly by, even if they are not the officials they recommend, will suffer the same punishment. ”

The ministers couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, Xinling Jun is vicious, as soon as he even sits down, the officials everywhere will rush to kill those evil officials in order to avoid even sitting, so they don't dare to shelter anymore. In the future, if they want to recommend anyone, they don't dare to tell Shangjun at will, which makes them lose a lot of "gifts" that can be easily obtained.

Bribery is an insult to the nobles, if you take the money to find the nobleman and ask him to help you, most of the nobles will kill you, but if you give a gift to the nobleman and become his friend, then he can blatantly protect you without having to suffer moral condemnation. It is a distorted and pathological society based on the basic morality of the aristocracy, and the criminal behavior of sheltering friends and relatives is seen as a moral society.

Because the Qin State encouraged villagers and family members to report each other, they were regarded as barbarians and were reprimanded as impolite.

Wei Wuji's behavior is also subject to insults from the aristocracy: what is wrong with us sheltering our friends and family? You don't praise us, you want us to sit together??

Of course, not all nobles will think so, many years ago, there was an iron-blooded official in charge of taxation, who killed many friends close to him, and even friends of Pingyuanjun, so he was recommended by Pingyuanjun, and that person was called Zhao Hao.

When Wei Wuji left the palace, he brought out the order of the king of Zhao, and asked Ma Fujun to inspect the places and check the royal orders of the traitors.

Zhao Kuo returned to Mafu, and let some of his guests return to help him, Li Yu is still busy, he can't come back, fortunately as his biggest helper, he can't return, and in the end he can only be returned to Mafu by Di, Zhao Fu, and Wang Fan. During this period, Zhao Kuo was still talking to Han Fei about the next thing and dealing with traitors, which was just the premise for Zhao Kuo to innovate.

Wanting to find out these thieves and let King Zhao see the seriousness of the situation, and then change the situation of local selection of officials, conduct a "civil service examination" similar to that of later generations, select a group of shrewd and capable officials, change the local official system, and then arrange the supervision system for officials, determine the punishment system, and link by link, Zhao Kuo put forward his main idea, and Han Fei supplemented and improved.

The young Han Fei has already shown his extraordinary side, and the way to sit together is what he thought of.

Han Fei was very interested in Zhao Kuo's concept, and in addition, he also saw the current situation of Zhao Guo very thoroughly, and he directly expressed his opinion: he believed that this trip would encounter four situations, there would be people who desperately sheltered their cronies to show their morality, there would be people who launched ghosts to cover up their crimes, there were people who committed suicide because they didn't want to be insulted, and there were people who told their crimes and begged for mercy.

Han Fei thinks: For those who shelter their cronies, they should be attacked from their prestige, because this is what they care about the most, for example, King Zhao treats you as a confidant, but you have done something against King Zhao because of personal feelings, can a person like you still be considered a gentleman? For those who put out the substitute ghosts, they should be rewarded, and they do not have to strictly investigate their past and praise their righteousness, so that more high-ranking officials will not choose to shelter and get close, which will also help future innovations.

Heavy penalties may be waived for those who turn themselves in and beg for mercy, and those who commit suicide in fear of sin should be read out in public, and their property should be confiscated so that others may take warning.

Han Fei said: Punishment is not the goal, the purpose should be to make the officials dare not bully the people anymore and dare not deceive the monarch.

Zhao Kuo knew what he was worried about, he was worried that he would deal with it impartially, show no mercy, and bring all the sinners to justice, and suffer great resistance and resistance, Zhao Kuo of course wanted to deal with these thieves in the fish and meat township severely, but no matter how big the punishment for these officials was, they could not get anything back, but after such separate treatment, they could benefit the surviving people.

Zhao Kuo understands this.

He also swore in his heart that he would definitely change this situation.

His guests came one after another, the first to come was Di, Di just entered the courtyard, he couldn't wait to tell Zhao Kuo about the situation of Li Yu, sitting in front of Zhao Kuo, Di said excitedly: "When we distributed seeds and farm tools to those soldiers, they were very excited, and kowtowed in the direction of Mafu to thank them..."

Zhao Kuo frowned, looking a little unhappy.

Di hurriedly said: "These things are of great help to them, especially the food we sent, these soldiers returned home, there was an extra person at home to eat, but they did not prepare in advance, life was very hard, Li Yu knew about this, and sent us to constantly send food everywhere.... Once, after fortunately finishing the food, he just went out and found that his jade pendant was missing, so he hurriedly went back to look for it, only to see the local field officials snatching the grain that had just been sent in the name of collecting taxes. ”

"So he killed the officer." , Zhao Kuo said.

Di nodded, picked up the water bag and took a sip of water, and said: "It's just that we sent it a little late, many places have ended spring planting, and the seeds are useless, but the farm tools are still very useful, and the nobles from all over the country know that we are the doormen of Ma Fujun, and they dare not be rude to us, and some nobles also helped their own food and sent some grain and livestock, and Li Yu recorded the good deeds of these people." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Kuofang laughed, nodded, and said, "This is good." ”

"What about you, where and what are you doing? Isn't it just to see what they do and come back to tell us? Ge stood not far away, asked coldly, Di glared at him contemptuously, and said: "I also helped a lot, I told those people that these grains and farm tools are given to you by Ma Fujun, if anyone dares to snatch it, it is to rob Ma Fujun's things, and Ma Fujun will not spare it!" ”

"Yes, using Ma Fujun to scare others has always been your best thing."

"You!!" Suddenly, Di and Ge pinched again, Zhao Kuo ignored these two people, and talked to Han Fei about the plan to go again. Zhao Kuo never told Zhao's mother what he was going to do, he didn't want Zhao's mother to worry about him, he just told Zhao's mother that he was going to go to all parts of Zhao to see the situation of the people. It's just that the day after Di came back, Zhao's mother called Zhao Kuo over and asked him why he suddenly wanted to check the traitors in various places.

Zhao Kuo said: "Whether it is farming or other things, the little officials should be the people's reliance, they should protect the people, lead the people, not to bully them, I want to change the current situation, but, please don't worry about me, I brought the doorman, there will be no danger." Hearing Zhao Kuo's words, Zhao's mother laughed, and she smiled very happily.

She asked, "Is your sword sharp enough?" ”

Zhao Kuo was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "Sharp enough." ”

"Your father served as a Tabe official because his sword was sharp enough that he became a respected official. Now thou shalt search for traitors everywhere, and thou shalt always polish thy sword, and slay down those wicked officials who have done evil. ”

"Yui."

After Zhao Fu, Wang Fan and others arrived, Zhao Kuo got into the carriage, raised the banner of Mafujun, and set off from Mafu, he wanted to go all the way north, arrive at Yunzhong County, and then pass through Dai County from Yunzhong, and go back to Handan County. Zhao Kuo's departure with such fanfare naturally caused a sensation in the horse suit, and everyone in the horse suit followed the carriage one after another, sending Zhao Kuo out of the horse suit, and everyone bowed down in the direction of the carriage and bid farewell to their hero.

Sure enough, the news of Handan's royal decree and Zhao Kuo's departure from Mafu quickly spread to all places. caused a shock, the officials were both angry and frightened, and the letters accusing Pang Xuan were flowing towards Handan in a steady stream, and Ma Fujun's whereabouts became the most important thing for all local officials. In the case of playing the banner of Ma Fujun, Zhao Kuo's itinerary became extremely slow.

When he arrived at a township, the busy crowd saw the horse service flag from a distance, first wiped their eyes, and then rushed over without regard for anything, knelt down heavily on both sides of the road, greeted Ma Fujun, Zhao Kuo rushed to the township, and walked down from the carriage, helped the surrounding people, asked them about this year's harvest, the difficulties encountered, and finally asked whether the local officials had oppressed the people.

Facing these people, Zhao Kuo said seriously: "This time, I want to help the people of Zhao State, to investigate the local traitors, please don't hide it, tell me the truth, if anyone dares to take revenge on the second and third sons, I will take revenge on him with my own hands." In fact, the people don't need Zhao Kuo's guarantee at all, even if the officials will retaliate and execute them, they will never want to lie to Ma Fujun.

At that moment, some people came out and pointed out that the local towns were privately increasing the tax quota and filling their pockets. The grassroots system of Zhao State, from county to county, and then to township, but the problem is that the official system is very simple, and the local officials only have the county guard, the county lieutenant, the county cheng, the county order, the county lieutenant, and the county cheng, and the others are all assistants, not officials, and they do not need to be appointed by King Zhao, only the magistrates appoint.

There are township chiefs and prison gates in the townships, one is responsible for public security, and the other is responsible for all other government affairs, which is outrageously simple.

When he heard that Ma Fujun arrived, he happily put on the best clothes, and came to Ma Fujun in front of him, and was about to open his mouth to meet, when a burly strong man walked out of the side, grabbed him, and then Ma Fujun asked coldly: "May I ask about this year's tax situation?" ”

Rong was cold and trembling, and the strong man beside him shouted violently: "Say it quickly!" ”

He sat down on the ground, weak and weeping.

"I beg your forgiveness."

He quickly confessed his crimes, including how to increase taxes privately, ask for bribes from the people by mobilizing the quota of forced labor, collect money by controlling the ploughing cattle, etc., and when he finished speaking, Zhao Kuo was a little speechless, just a small official whose term of office was less than three months, and he had done so many evil things in a few months! And seeing Ma Fujun's angry appearance, Rong cried and begged for mercy:

"Please forgive Ma Fujun for my crimes, I am Dong Chengzi's disciple, I once fought with you against the Yan army in Bairen, my family master has always regarded you as a close friend, please look at his face and forgive my crimes."

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