"Huang Aiqing, I went south to the south of the Yangtze River, you were the first to support me, and the first to take refuge in me! You've been in Gangneung for a long time, and you were also the prime minister of Gangnam before, so now you are in the position of the head of the household! In the future, there will be a time for you to ascend! Zhao Chen said as he walked forward.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Huang Qianshan was overjoyed and said.

He used to be the prime minister, and this household secretary was much inferior to the prime minister, but it was much stronger than the Jiangling prefect. Moreover, this shows that Zhao Chen has no prejudice against him and is still willing to use him.

Hum!

At this time, Chen Dong next to him suddenly let out a cold snort.

"What? Chen County Order, do you have any dissatisfaction? Huang Qianshan looked at Chen Dong and sneered.

"Your Majesty, Huang Qianshan is cunning, greedy, and bending the law for personal gain, when he was in the position of prime minister, he did all the evil things, and now he must not be allowed to become the head of the household! His Majesty even sent him to prison for careful examination, this person has many crimes, and Wechen feels that this person should be put to death! Chen Dong said coldly.

"What did you say?" Huang Qianshan was furious, staring at Chen Dong with a pair of eyes.

"I have said that as long as you take refuge in me, you will not be guilty of your previous mistakes! No matter how many mistakes he makes, which he has made before, he can put them aside. Zhao Chen said lightly.

"Your Majesty, don't do that!" Chen Dong said anxiously.

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Huang Qianshan was overjoyed in his heart, and said.

More than ten officials next to him, except for Chen Dong, were all smiling at the moment, and they were all relieved in their hearts! In fact, Zhao Gou ruled Jiangnan, and there was no Jiangnan official who was not greedy! One out of ten officials is already good! Three years to clear the prefect's mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver, even if it is a "clean" prefect, three years can get 100,000 taels of silver, let alone someone who intends to embezzle? Among these officials who followed Zhao Chen, except for Chen Dong, they were all more or less corrupt, and at this moment, they were relieved to hear Zhao Chen once again affirm that he was not to blame for his previous mistakes!

"Why did Your Majesty do this?" Chen Dong said angrily.

"Jiangnan used to be under the management of Emperor Jianyan, Emperor Jianyan was extravagant, did not respect the law, the so-called upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, such an emperor rules Jiangnan, and it is naturally impossible to make officials honest! Emperor Jianyan is dead, so I am not to blame for the mistakes of the Jiangnan officials! However, now that I am the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, I can't allow anyone to be corrupt anymore! Chen Aiqing, when you were in Kaifeng, you were just a student of Taixue, but you stood up to impeach Cai Jing, Gao Yu, Tong Guan and other six thieves, and finally made the six thieves killed! When Zhao Gou was in power, no one in Jiangnan officials dared to stand up, but you stood up and scolded him and made him abdicate! For you, I have admired the name for a long time. Zhao Chen said.

"Weichen doesn't dare to be." Chen Dong's emotions gradually calmed down and said.

"I have decided to appoint you as the Imperial Historian of Jiangnan." Zhao Chen said fiercely.

"Ahh Chen Dong was taken aback, and then a happy smile appeared on his face.

As an imperial historian, he can supervise and impeach officials in the world, which is something that Chen Dong has always yearned for.

"There are a lot of corrupt officials in Jiangnan, I have decided to deal with corruption, what can you do?" Zhao Chen said as he walked forward.

"If you want to control corruption, you must first be right-hearted! Especially Your Majesty, Your Majesty can be righteous in the court, only in the right court can be in the right court, only in the right court can be in the right hundred officials, only in the right hundred officials can be in the right people, and only in the right people can be in the Quartet! Your Majesty wants to promote education and send famous teachers to teach all officials and people in the world, so that my Great Song Dynasty will naturally be honest! Chen Dongdao.

After Chen Dong finished speaking, Zhao Chen was stunned! Using "righteousness" to control corruption is a view only found by corrupt Confucianism! This Chen Dong is jealous and hateful, and his integrity is extraordinary, who knew that he was such a corrupt Confucian who didn't understand the world.

"What else do you do?" Zhao Chen said again.

"Secondly, Your Majesty wants to suppress industry and commerce! Since ancient times, there have been no businessmen and no treachery, and it is precisely because of these businessmen that the world is treacherous! After the suppression of industry and commerce, there will be fewer and fewer corrupt people, and the atmosphere in the world will naturally get better and better. Chen Dong is serious.

Zhao Chen now feels a little crying and laughing.

"What else do you do?" Zhao Chen said again.

"Also, it's about reducing the rule of law!" Chen Dongdao.

"Reducing the rule of law?" Zhao Chen said in disbelief.

"Yes, it is precisely to reduce the rule of law! The sage once said, 'When the law comes out, treachery is born, and when the order is given, it is deceitful', and the more the rule of law, the more treacherous the people in the world are, and the more corrupt people will be. There is nothing wrong with the words of a saint, right? We are to do what the saints say! Chen Dongdao.

"The law is born and the law is born, and the order is deceitful" means that the more laws, the more people break the law, and the more laws and regulations, the more treacherous people! The ancients called it "the law comes out of adultery", which is what the famous Confucian figure Dong Zhongshu said! This Dong Zhongshu can also be regarded as one of the Confucian sages, and he was extremely famous in ancient times, and Chen Dong actually respected his words until.

"You mean to say that you are going to rule by virtue? Abandoning the rule of law? Use the rule of virtue to make the world clear? Zhao Chen said.

"Not bad! It is precisely to abandon the rule of law and rule the country with virtue! It's great that Your Majesty understands this truth! Chen Dong danced with his hands.

Zhao Chen nodded lightly, but he didn't think so!

Now that Jiangnan has been conquered, the situation in the north has become clear, and it is no longer a problem to restore the Central Plains. This governance of the world includes the governance of corruption. The rule of ethics is of course indispensable, but the rule of law is also indispensable, not to mention the suppression of industry and commerce, which is a practice that does not conform to the law of historical development. This Chen Dong is a standard rotten Confucian, and the real "useless is a scholar", such a person is not worth reusing at all. Even if he is jealous and hateful, even if he has extraordinary integrity, he will only do wrong things with good intentions.

"Zhang Aiqing, what do you think about corruption?" Zhao Chen suddenly looked at Zhang Jun on the side and said.

Zhang Jun is very famous in history, serving as the privy envoy of the Southern Song Dynasty, prime minister and other important positions, of course, he is not very famous in this era, but his ability is still better than ordinary officials, Zhao Chen also wants to hear his opinion.

Zhang Jun was also a little surprised, he didn't expect Zhao Chen to ask him how to control corruption.

"Your Majesty, to deal with corruption, one is to determine the world with righteousness, and the other is to use heavy punishment to control corruption, so that officials in the world dare not be corrupt!" Zhang Jun thought for a long time before he said.

There is a lot of shade in the mountains, although it is summer, but the breeze blows, and it gives people a cool feeling here, Zhao Chen said: "Heavy punishment to govern corruption? How can the sentence be severed? ”

Zhang Jun said: "Those who corrupt a hundred taels of silver will be dismissed!" Those who embezzle a thousand taels of silver will be detained for three years! Those who embezzle 10,000 taels of silver will be detained for ten years and have their homes raided! Those who corrupt 100,000 taels of silver will be decided! Those who corrupt millions of taels of silver will kill the nine clans! ”

Zhao Chen shook his head gently as he walked forward.

Since the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty, there have been few examples of heavy punishment for corrupt officials, and now Zhang Jun can say such things, which can be regarded as commendable.

But harsh sentences are by no means a good way to combat corruption.

In particular, what Zhang Jun said is not a "heavy sentence" at all.

In Chinese history, the most famous emperor who punished corruption with heavy punishment was Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that anyone who embezzled more than 60 taels of silver would be punished with skinning and torture. In front of the gate of every state capital in the world, there is a land temple, and this land temple is the place where torture is practiced, so it is also called "skinning temple". Once someone embezzled more than 60 taels of silver, he was immediately escorted to the land temple, first cut off his head, hung on the flagpole to show the public, and then stripped off the human skin, stuffed it with straw, and placed it next to the yamen seat. The first thing the new official did when he took office was to go to the Land Temple to pay respects, and then live in the Land Temple for one night, and then when he worked in the Yamen, he had to be accompanied by "human skin", which was very terrifying!

In addition to skinning, Zhu Yuanzhang also formulated countless tortures against corrupt officials, such as picking tendons, picking knees, chopping fingers, cutting hands, cutting feet, pumping intestines, brushing, weighing rods, stabbing bones, cutting noses, castrations, beheadings, Ling Chi, and clan punishments! But in the end, Zhu Yuanzhang found that the corrupt officials in the world were invincible, and the more they killed, the more they killed, and in the end, Zhu Yuanzhang was also powerless, so he could only say "In the future, all those who stole money will be punished regardless of the severity"!

Zhu Yuanzhang was born poor, his parents and brothers all starved to death since he was a child, and he hated corrupt officials unusually well, so he was extremely strict in governing corruption! Compared with Zhu Yuanzhang, the "heavy punishments" mentioned by Zhang Jun are almost not mentioned! If the officials of the Ming Dynasty heard these "heavy punishments" mentioned by Zhang Jun, I am afraid they would laugh out loud!

But Zhu Yuanzhang can't control corruption even if he tortures him like this, how can Zhang Jun's "heavy punishment" be able to control corruption?

Therefore, Zhao Chen also disagreed with Zhang Jun's statement.

In ancient China, for thousands of years, almost no one was able to control corruption. Even in modern society, corruption is still rampant.

"What's your majesty's plan?" At this time, Huang Qianshan spoke.

"I don't have any good ideas, I just start with the system! At present, the prefects and counties in various localities have too great power, and they have to manage the localities as well as try cases, and there is almost no one in the prefecture and county who can restrain them! I can let the famous people in the prefecture and county supervise the local officials! If the officials do something wrong, these prominent people can even write a joint letter to me to impeach these officials. Zhao Chen said.

In fact, this is the prototype of the "parliament"! The earliest parliaments were composed of local famous people, and of course the real parliament had much more power than Zhao Chen said, they could supervise finances, impeach officials, conduct elections, and so on! Now Zhao Chen is just saying that these people have limited supervision rights!

"Your Majesty's idea is a good one! Someone supervises, and those officials naturally don't dare to do evil! Huang Qianshan said immediately.

Zhang Jun also nodded.

"Your Majesty, the prefects and prefects in various places are all ten years old, and they have studied hard to learn from the sages, so that they can govern the place! Your Majesty is doing this, is that distrusting these prefects and prefects? Don't trust us saints anymore! Chen Dong asked sharply.

"It's not distrustful! There are also evildoers among the saints' disciples, and it should be a good thing to have someone to oversee them! Zhao Chen said.

"But not everyone is like this, Your Majesty does this, which can only make the world's readers chill!" Chen Dongdao.

"This is just a casual remark, and I still have to think about it in the future." Zhao Chen smiled faintly.

There is no need to argue with this rotten man now.

These rotten Confucians, who believe in their hearts that the truth of death, cannot be changed at all.

In Zhao Chen's view, people with power are prone to abuse power, which is an eternal experience. No matter who you are, as long as you become an official, you are prone to corruption. For example, the rule of virtue to govern corruption, this is naturally possible, but the completion of a person's moral cultivation is a long-term and complex project, and some people may not be able to improve their morality for the rest of their lives. Therefore, it is still necessary to use the system to restrain and supervise rights, and this is the best way to deal with corruption.

In fact, it is not only about tackling corruption, but also about restricting and supervising rights in governing the world, so that rights can be used by the people, not by individuals.

Now that we are getting closer and closer to the restoration of the Central Plains, these issues have gradually entered Zhao Chen's agenda.

Zhao Chen has already given an order to Guanshan, so that young people from all over Guanshan can go to the Central Plains and Yanyun to prepare to govern the Central Plains and Yanyun.

As long as the affairs of Jiangnan are dealt with, he will immediately go north, and when he arrives in the north, he will now implement a new system in the north! The north is now in ruins, and the local forces have long been cleared by the Jurchens, and the implementation of the new system in the north will not encounter much resistance! As for Jiangnan, it can only be maintained for the time being.

In front of him was already where the mountain gate of Lingyin Temple was located, and several monks were standing there, waiting for Zhao Chen to arrive.