Guo Peng started his inspection all the way from Linzi County, and every village along the way was very carefully inspected.

When he inspected a newly established village in Jinan, he saw that the harvest in the village was very good, and the farmers were working diligently, and he felt very satisfied.

So Guo Peng praised the newly appointed village chief in the village who came out of his own Zhuangzi and walked back with a smile.

didn't walk much, about a dozen miles, two middle-aged men appeared on the side of the road and knelt in front of Guo Peng.

The guards stepped forward to scold, but were stopped by Guo Peng, Guo Peng dismounted and stepped forward quickly, helping the two of them.

"Envoy! Help me! ”

The two cried and told their story intermittently.

Guo Peng ordered the establishment of new villages and towns, granted land to the displaced people, ordered them to cultivate to facilitate the hoarding of grain, and also left enough rations for the displaced people to keep them alive and not starve to death.

However, at the same time, in order to make officials and villagers have a certain degree of enthusiasm, Guo Peng set up a reward system, which was aimed at farmers and officials.

In short, the more you harvest within a certain range, the more food you will be rewarded, and you will be able to eat a little more than other people.

The more grain the village and township chiefs at the grassroots level hand in, the better their political performance will be, and the more rewards and promotions they will receive.

This is a very normal reward and punishment system, and there is nothing worth paying attention to, but what these two people told made Guo Peng furious.

The head of the village drove the peasants as slaves in order to get more food, get better political performance, and move up the ranks faster.

When he was ploughing and working, he himself led people to patrol the fields with whips, and when he saw a little rest, he went up with a whip, and scolded him for continuing to work and not being lazy, and the rest time was compressed to the extreme.

Not only that, when handing over grain, in order to get more political achievements, it was forced to reduce the share of rations that Guo Peng stipulated to be reserved for the peasants, and hand over more of them, so as to obtain political achievements and praise.

But the peasants in the village would not have enough to eat, they would go hungry, they would be very uncomfortable, and they would not be able to persevere.

If you don't have enough to eat, you don't have the strength to work, but if you don't work, you will be whipped, and some of the older people can't hold on anymore, and they are beaten to death, and they are all suppressed by the village chief and are not allowed to be revealed.

This time, Guo Peng came to inspect and saw a peaceful scene, but everyone didn't dare to say it, for fear that they would die.

But the two of them have lost their relatives, and they just want to avenge their relatives and ask Guo Peng to administer justice for them.

The officials who followed Guo Peng to inspect the fields were dumbfounded, while Guo Peng was silent for a while with a black face, and called the two to go back with him.

Back in the village, the village chief Zhao Neng heard that Guo Peng turned back halfway, and didn't know what was going on, so he hurriedly ran to greet him, and was shocked when he saw Guo Peng with two people from the village around him.

Guo Peng turned over and dismounted, holding a horsewhip in his hand, and walked over step by step, the village chief was so frightened that his face turned pale, he retreated again and again, and fell to the ground after a few steps.

"Zhao Neng, because you work hard, have a smart mind, and recognize words faster than others, I gave you the name of the word Neng, I hope you become a capable official, my expectations for you are right, you are indeed quite capable.

Last year, the amount of summer and autumn grain handed in was among the best, and I plan to promote you to be the head of the township after I go back, so that you can pass on your experience to the villages in various places, so that they can learn a little bit and learn from you. ”

Guo Peng stood in front of Zhao Neng and looked down at him.

"But can you explain to me what it's like to keep a whip on the farmer's work?"

Zhao Neng's pupils shrank, trembling all over, and just as he was about to speak, Guo Peng waved his hand and whipped him in the face, just right to his mouth, and the whip pulled his words back, pulling out a few teeth.

Zhao Neng directly covered his mouth and writhed on the ground, blood flowing down through his fingers.

"If you have a long ability, you can whip people, yes, yes, you can read and write quickly, you also learn very quickly in this area, and you lose your conscience very quickly, right?"

Another whip was whipped on his body, and a bloody streak was quickly revealed through his clothes, which looked very terrifying.

"If I'm not mistaken, you are also a homeless person, entered my manor, eaten, learned to read, arranged work for you to do and learn, and made you the village head, pointing to you to remember the hard days of the past, do things well, so that everyone has something to eat, as a result, you seem to have forgotten that you yourself were also hungry, right?"

Guo Peng shook the whip a few times, whipped him three times in a row, and then kept pumping, pumping harder and harder.

"Let you be the village chief, you came here to be a prestige?"

"What do you think of yourself? Yes? Emperor? ”

"What I don't even dare to do, you're doing it well, aren't you?"

"Dare to bully people, dare to starve to death, do this kind of thing, are you really not afraid of cutting off your children and grandchildren? Yes? ”

Dozens of whips were drawn, and Zhao Neng's flesh and blood were blurred, and there was only one breath left.

As soon as Guo Peng stretched out his hand, the guards beside him handed over a ring-headed knife, and with this knife, Guo Peng chopped off Zhao Neng's head with a knife, and handed the bloody head to the guards.

"Take it, pass it to every village, and tell the head of every village that if you dare to starve a person to death, this is what will happen to them."

The guard took his head and took the order.

It's not enough to cut off the head, one Zhao Neng can kill it, and hundreds or thousands of newly established villages in the four counties can't be killed by himself.

So Guo Peng immediately ordered the Qingzhou Governor's Mansion to send officials to take the roster of displaced people to each village to do a census.

The living and the dead are all registered, the living are left alone, the dead are dead, find out the cause of death for me, and once the problem is found, the village chief will be beheaded directly for public display.

When the village was established, Guo Peng set a census policy, and the number of people settled in each village, each person's gender, name, and birthday were registered, and one more or less had to be added or deleted, and no exceptions were allowed.

Now it comes in handy.

Guo Peng found a loophole in his policy, which is very simple, and the obvious loophole is easy to drill.

It is arrogant to think that there will be no problem if the policy is implemented.

And it will not work to rely on one's conscience to restrain one's behavior.

Policies must evolve with the times, and so must laws.

Guo Peng's pride was shattered, he understood his mistake and began to seek ways to improve.

Regarding Guo Peng's act of beheading the criminals, Xun Yu expressed his opposition.

"Killing can certainly stop crimes for a while, but the reason why some people commit crimes is because there are policy omissions, if we don't correct the policy omissions, there will be more and more people who commit crimes, and the killing is endless.

Guo Peng sighed and said to Xun Yu: "Wen Ruo's words, I naturally know that I can't kill all the people who hurt Li Shu alone, does Wen Ruo have any strategy to teach me?" ”

Xun Yu thought for a while, and said: "Ming Gong can send inspection envoys to inspect in all directions, irregularly, indefinitely, indefinitely, indefinitely, openly, and secretly, in this way, the local village and township chiefs can be afraid and dare not act recklessly, which can reduce the occurrence of this kind of thing." ”

"I'll tell you about this."

Guo Peng nodded.

Later, Xun Yu suggested that Guo Peng should not appoint too many people from humble and poor backgrounds, thinking that they were born poor, greedy for money and status, and once they got power, it was difficult not to seek personal gain.

Xun Yu gave some examples from the Western Han Dynasty to Guo Peng, saying that those who were born poor would have some poor and fearful psychology, and under this kind of psychology, even if they read and read, after getting power, they would use power in retaliation.

They intensified their torture of Li Shu, and amassed wealth on a large scale, becoming miser-like people, who did not repent until death, and this kind of thing was not unpleasant.

Therefore, the Han Dynasty learned these lessons, and only then did it stipulate that officials should have their own property, read poetry and books, and be virtuous, so that they would not be greedy for money, and would not squeeze Li Shu to embezzle public funds.

Xun Yu suggested that Guo Peng appoint more children of the scholar clan to be village and township heads, and the children of the scholar clan have surplus wealth and will not covet these wealth, so that the birth of this kind of thing can be avoided to a considerable extent.

Isn't it beautiful to have such a two-pronged approach?